An agenda for land data assimilation priorities: Realizing the promise of terrestrial water, energy, and vegetation observations from space

S Kumar, J Kolassa, R Reichle, W Crow… - Journal of Advances …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The task of quantifying spatial and temporal variations in terrestrial water, energy, and
vegetation conditions is challenging due to the significant complexity and heterogeneity of …

Assimilation of SMAP brightness temperature observations in the GEOS land–atmosphere data assimilation system

RH Reichle, SQ Zhang, Q Liu… - IEEE journal of …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Errors in soil moisture adversely impact the modeling of land–atmosphere water and energy
fluxes and, consequently, near-surface atmospheric conditions in atmospheric data …

NASA's Global Precipitation Measurement mission: Leveraging stakeholder engagement & applications activities to inform decision-Making

A Portier, D Kirschbaum, M Gebremichael… - Remote Sensing …, 2023 - Elsevier
The application of satellite precipitation estimates from NASA's Global Precipitation
Measurement (GPM) Mission for decision-making has been a focus for the mission since …

Development of a global operational snow analysis: The US Air Force Snow and Ice Analysis

Y Yoon, EM Kemp, SV Kumar, JW Wegiel… - Remote Sensing of …, 2022 - Elsevier
This study describes the development of a new, near real-time (NRT) global operational
snow analysis, called the US Air Force Snow and Ice Analysis (USAF-SI). USAF-SI is a …

A NASA–air Force precipitation analysis for near-real-time operations

EM Kemp, JW Wegiel, SV Kumar… - Journal of …, 2022 - journals.ametsoc.org
This article describes a new precipitation analysis algorithm developed by NASA for time-
sensitive operations at the United States Air Force. Implemented as part of the Land …