•Assimilate Dr. Owe’s surface soil
moisture data from SMMR over North America and
evaluate.
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•Optimize soil moisture initialization using
coupled S-I prediction (collaboration with NSIPP core). How do we evaluate this properly?
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•Move towards a global implementation of the
assimilation.
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•Be ready for assimilation of AMSR data when
it becomes available (collaboration with UT).
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•Move towards assimilation new data types
(follow-on proposal).
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