Impacts of improving the observability of land surface model soil moisture estimates on data assimilation performance

Sujay V Kumar, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Joseph A Santanello Jr, NASA, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Mahdi Navari, UCLA, Irvine, CA, United States, Soni Yatheendradas, NASA/GSFC and UMD/ESSIC, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Christa D Peters-Lidard, NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States