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