Characterizing hydrological hazards and trends with the NASA South Asia Land Data Assimilation System

Debjani Ghatak1, Benjamin F Zaitchik2, Ashutosh S Limaye3, Nancy D Searby4, Bradley Doorn5, John D Bolten6, David L Toll7, Sylvia Lee8, Bessma Mourad8, Kapil Narula9, Shilpa Nischal9, Charles Iceland10, Birendra Bajracharya11, Sujay V Kumar12, Basanta Raj Shrestha13, MSR Murthy11, Christopher Hain3 and Simon Kraatz14, (1)Johns Hopkins University, Applied Physics, Baltimore, MD, United States, (2)Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States, (3)NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL, United States, (4)NASA Headquarters, Washington, United States, (5)NASA Headquarters, Applied Sciences Program, Water Resources & Agriculture, Washington, United States, (6)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, (7)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (8)Skoll Global Threats Fund, San Francisco, CA, United States, (9)Confederation of Indian Industry, New Delhi, India, (10)World Resources Institute, Washington, DC, United States, (11)International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD), Kathmandu, Nepal, (12)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Hydrological Sciences Laboratory, Greenbelt, United States, (13)ICIMOD, Kathmandu, Nepal, (14)USDA ARS, Hydrology and Remote Sensing Laboratory, Beltsville, United States