Estimation of snow emissivity via assimilation of multi-frequency passive microwave data into an ensemble-based data assimilation system

Leila Farhadi, George Washington University, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Washington, DC, United States, Sayed M. Bateni, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Water Resources Research Center, Honolulu, United States, Thomas Auligne, Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation (JCSDA), Boulder, United States and Mahdi Navari, Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States