A coordinated enhanced network strategy proposal to monitor North America’s major agricultural systems, prove NASA’s satellite products, and improve hydrologic prediction

Craig R Ferguson, University at Albany State University of New York, Albany, NY, United States, Michael Cosh, USDA ARS, Baltimore, United States, Charles N. Kroll, SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry, Syracuse, United States, Lundquist Jessica, University of Washington, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Seattle, WA, United States, Andrew N French, USDA-ARS, U.S. Arid-Land Agricultural Research Center, Maricopa, AZ, United States, Lance F Bosart, University at Albany, SUNY, Department of Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences, Albany, NY, United States, Paul Dirmeyer, COLA, Fairfax, VA, United States, Volker Wulfmeyer, University of Hohenheim, Institute of Physics and Meteorology, Stuttgart, Germany, David D Turner, NOAA Global Systems Laboratory, Boulder, CO, United States, Peter J van Oevelen, George Mason University Fairfax, Fairfax, VA, United States, Michael B Ek, NCAR, RAL, Boulder, United States and Gab Abramowitz, Climate Change Research Centre, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia