Shahryar Khalique Ahmad¹, Thomas R Holmes^2,3, Sujay V Kumar³, Timothy M Lahmers³, Goutam Konapala⁴, Augusto Getirana⁵, Wanshu Nie⁶, Pang-Wei Liu⁷, Christopher Hain⁸, Renata Libonati⁹ and Kim Locke¹⁰, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Hydrological Sciences Laboratory, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)USDA ARS, Beltsville, United States, (3)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, (4)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, United States, (5)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (6)Johns Hopkins University, Balitmore, United States, (7)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Hydrological Sciences Laboratory, Greenbelt, United States, (8)NASA Marshall Space Flight Cetner, Huntsville, United States, (9)Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Brazil, (10)University of Maryland College Park, ESSIC, College Park, United States