Evaluating Land Information System (LIS) capabilities in simulating the water budget and surface water dynamics over data-scarce areas in the Middle East

Augusto Getirana1, Hahn Chul Jung1, Amy McNally2, Christa D Peters-Lidard2 and Jean-Francois Cretaux3, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, (2)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (3)CNES French National Center for Space Studies, Toulouse Cedex 09, France