A Synthetic Experiment to Investigate the Potential of Assimilating LAI through Direct Insertion in a Land Data Assimilation System
Azbina Rahman1, Xinxuan Zhang1, Viviana Maggioni2, Yuan Xue1, Paul Houser3, Timothy Sauer1, Sujay V Kumar4 and David M Mocko5, (1)George Mason University Fairfax, Fairfax, VA, United States, (2)George Mason University Fairfax, Sid and Reva Dewberry Department of Civil, Environmental, and Infrastructure Engineering, Fairfax, VA, United States, (3)George Mason University Fairfax, Geography and Geoinformation Sciences, Fairfax, United States, (4)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (5)SAIC, Greenbelt, United States