Land Surface Modeling Applications for Famine Early Warning

James P Verdin1, Christa D Peters-Lidard2, Amy McNally3, Kristi R Arsenault4, Shugong Wang5, Sujay V Kumar6, Shraddhanand Shukla7, Chris C Funk7, Md Shahriar Pervez8, Greg M Fall9 and Logan R Karsten10, (1)University of Maryland, Boulder, United States, (2)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Sciences and Exploration Directorate, Greenbelt, United States, (3)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (4)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Hydrologic Sciences Laboratory, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (5)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (NASA-GSFC), Greenbelt, MD, United States, (6)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Hydrological Sciences Laboratory, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (7)University of California Santa Barbara, Climate Hazards Center, Geography Department, Santa Barbara, CA, United States, (8)USGS Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center, Sioux Falls, SD, United States, (9)NOAA/NWS/OWP, Chanhassen, MN, United States, (10)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States