The multi‐institution North American Land Data Assimilation System (NLDAS): Utilizing multiple GCIP products and partners in a continental distributed hydrological modeling system
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration · NOAA National Centers for Environmental Prediction · +8 more institutions
Abstract
Results are presented from the multi‐institution partnership to develop a real‐time and retrospective North American Land Data Assimilation System (NLDAS). NLDAS consists of (1) four land models executing in parallel in uncoupled mode, (2) common hourly surface forcing, and (3) common streamflow routing: all using a 1/8° grid over the continental United States. The initiative is largely sponsored by the Global Energy and Water Cycle Experiment (GEWEX) Continental‐Scale International Project (GCIP). As the overview for nine NLDAS papers, this paper describes and evaluates the 3‐year NLDAS execution of 1 October 1996 to 30 September 1999, a period rich in observations for validation. The validation emphasizes…
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- 69.62
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- 100%
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- 71
Authors
22- KEKenneth E. MitchellCorresponding
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, NOAA National Centers for Environmental Prediction, NOAA National Weather Service
- DLDag Lohmann
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, NOAA National Centers for Environmental Prediction, NOAA National Weather Service
- PRPaul R. Houser
Goddard Space Flight Center
- EFEric F. Wood
Princeton University
- JCJohn C. Schaake
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, NOAA National Weather Service
Topics & keywords
- Environmental science
- Data assimilation
- Streamflow
- Snow
- Forcing (mathematics)
- Climatology
- Meteorology
- Drainage basin