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Development
of a Kalman filtering based snow
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assimilation
strategy which overcomes the current
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limitations
with assimilation of snow water equivalent,
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snow
depth, and snow cover.
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Investigate
the utility of novel snow observation
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products
in such an assimilation strategy. Such
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observations
include snow melt signature and
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fractional
snow cover.
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Provide
a basis for global implementation of an
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assimilation
scheme for snow observation products,
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both
for near-real-time forecasting and for the accurate
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initialization
of seasonal-to-interannual predictions in
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the
NSIPP fully-coupled GCM.
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