Global groundwater storage estimates through assimilation of GRACE data into a land surface model


Bailing Li1, Matthew Rodell2, Sujay V Kumar3, Hiroko K Kato-Beaudoing4, Augusto Getirana3, Benjamin F Zaitchik5, Luis Goncalves6, Camila Cossetin7, Soumendra Nath Bhanja, PhD8, Abhijit Mukherjee9, Siyuan Tian10, Natthachet Tangdamrongsub11, Di Long12, Jamiat Nanteza, Jejung Lee14, Frederick S Policelli15, Goni Ibrahim16, Daira Djoret17, Mohammed D Bila17, Gabrielle J.M. De Lannoy18, David M Mocko19, Susan C Steele-Dunne20, Himanshu Save21 and Srinivas V Bettadpur21, (1)University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States, (2)NASA GSFC HSL, Greenbelt, United States, (3)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (4)SAIC, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (5)Johns Hopkins University, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Baltimore, MD, United States, (6)CPTEC/INPE, Cachoeira Paulista, Brazil, (7)Climatempo, São José dos Campos, São Paulo, Brazil, (8)Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Computational Sciences and Engineering Division, Oak Ridge, TN, United States, (9)Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, Geology and Geophysics, Kharagpur, India, (10)Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia, (11)University of Maryland College Park, College Park, United States, (12)Tsinghua University, Department of Hydraulic Engineering, Beijing, China, (13)University of Missouri - Kansas City, Kansas City, United States, (14)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Hydrological Sciences Laboratory, Greenbelt, United States, (15)University of Maiduguri, Maiduguri, Nigeria, (16)Lake Chad Basin Commission, N'Djamena, Chad, (17)KU Leuven, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Leuven, Belgium, (18)SAIC, Greenbelt, United States, (19)Technische Universiteit Delft, Department of Geoscience and Remote Sensing, Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences, Delft, Netherlands, (20)The University of Texas at Austin, Center for Space Research, Austin, TX, United States