Opportunities and Challenges for Hydrological Analysis in the HKH: Emerging experiences from the South Asia Land Data Assimilation System

Benjamin F Zaitchik1, Debjani Ghatak2, Sujay V Kumar3, Frederick S Policelli3 and Paul J Block4, (1)Johns Hopkins University, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Baltimore, MD, United States, (2)Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States, (3)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Hydrological Sciences Laboratory, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (4)University of Wisconsin Madison, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Madison, United States