The role of land surface feedbacks in drought monitoring and forecasting


Christa D Peters-Lidard1, Sujay V Kumar2, David M Mocko3, Amy McNally4, Kristi R Arsenault3, Shraddhanand Shukla5, Abheera Hazra4, Augusto Getirana2, Randal D Koster6, Hahn Chul Jung7, Ben M Zaitchik8 and Hamada S Badr9, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Sciences and Exploration Directorate, Greenbelt, United States, (2)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (3)SAIC, Greenbelt, United States, (4)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, (5)University of California Santa Barbara, Climate Hazards Center, Geography Department, Santa Barbara, United States, (6)NASA Goddard SFC, Global Modeling and Assimilation Office, Greenbelt, United States, (7)Yonsei University, Department of Earth System Sciences, Seoul, South Korea, (8)Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States, (9)Johns Hopkins University, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Baltimore, MD, United States