Soil moisture-precipitation relationships during recent floods in the US: results from modeling analysis and plans for GEWEX “soil-cloud cascade”

Min Huang, George Mason University Fairfax, Fairfax, VA, United States, Yijian Zeng, University of Twente, Enschede, Netherlands, Anne Verhoef, University of Reading, Department of Geography and Environmental Science, Reading, United Kingdom, Bin Guan, University of California, Los Angeles, Joint Institute for Regional Earth System Science and Engineering, Los Angeles, CA, United States, Yunyan Zhang, Lawrence Livermore Nat Labs, Livermore, CA, United States, L. Ruby Leung, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Atmospheric Sciences and Global Change Division, Richland, WA, United States and Zhongbo Su, Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation, University of Twente, Enschede, Netherlands