Assessing the Impact of SMAP Soil Moisture Data Assimilation on the Simulation and Prediction of Tropical Cyclone Idai

Jana Kolassa1,2, Rolf H Reichle2, Manisha Ganeshan2,3, Erica L McGrath-Spangler2,4 and Oreste Reale1,2, (1)Science Systems and Applications, Inc., Lanham, United States, (2)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, (3)Morgan State University, Baltimore, MD, United States, (4)Morgan State University, Baltimore, United States