Evaluation and inter-comparison of modern day reanalysis datasets over Africa and the Middle East

Kristi R Arsenault, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Hydrologic Sciences Laboratory, Greenbelt, MD, United States; SAIC, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Shraddhanand Shukla, University of California Santa Barbara, Climate Hazards Center, Santa Barbara, CA, United States, Mike Hobbins, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, CO, United States, Christa D Peters-Lidard, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States and James P Verdin, USGS/EROS, Boulder, CO, United States