William P Kustas, U. S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Hydrology and Remote Sensing Laboratory, Beltsville, MD, United States, Martha Anderson, USDA ARS Hydrology and Remote Sensing Laboratory, Beltsville, MD, United States, Christopher Hain, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL, United States, Justin L Huntington, Desert Research Institute, Division of Hydrologic Sciences, Reno, NV, United States and Forrest S Melton, CSU Monterey Bay, Seaside, CA, United States; NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, United States