How Well Can We Model Seasonal Variations in Land Water Storage Globally?


Bridget R Scanlon1, Zi-Zhan Zhang2, Ashraf Rateb3, Hiroko K Kato-Beaudoing4, Michael J Croteau5, Petra M Doll6, David M Lawrence7, Min-Hui Lo8, Hannes Mueller Schmied9, Himanshu Save10, Alexander Y Sun11, Sean C Swenson7, Ludovicus P Van Beek12 and David N Wiese13, (1)University of Texas at Austin, Bureau of Economic Geology, Jackson School of Geosciences, Austin, United States, (2)Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Geodesy and Geophysics, Wuhan, China, (3)University of Texas at Austin, Bureau of Economic Geology, Jackson School of Geosciences, Austin, TX, United States, (4)SAIC, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (5)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Geodesy and Geophysics Laboratory, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (6)Univ Franfurt/Main, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, (7)NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, United States, (8)National Taiwan University, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Taipei, Taiwan, (9)Goethe University Frankfurt, Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre, Institute of Physical Geography, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, (10)The University of Texas at Austin, Center for Space Research, Austin, TX, United States, (11)University of Texas at Austin, Bureau of Economic Geology, Austin, United States, (12)Utrecht University, Department of Physical Geography, Utrecht, Netherlands, (13)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States