A Synthetic Study on the Influence of Error in Surface Soil Moisture Observations on Assimilation

Motivation

Methodology Overview

The Catchment-Based LSM

Data

Degraded Data

Effect of Observation Error: 1

Effect of Observation Error: 2

Effect of Observation Error: 3

Effect of Observation Error: 4

Effect of Observation Error: 5

Effect of Forcing Bias: 1

Effect of Observation Error: 1

Effect of Forcing Bias: 2

Effect of Forcing Bias: 3

Conclusions