Kristen Marie Whitney^1,2, Sujay V Kumar³, David M Mocko⁴, Justin M. Pflug^3,5, John D Bolten⁶, Fadji Zaouna Maina^1,7, Melissa Wrzesien^2,3 and Christopher Hain⁸, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)University of Maryland College Park, College Park, United States, (3)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, (4)NASA GSFC/SAIC, Greenbelt, United States, (5)University of Maryland, College Park, Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, College Park, United States, (6)Hydrological Sciences Laboratory, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt MD, United States, (7)University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, United States, (8)NASA Marshall Space Flight Cetner, Huntsville, United States