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Development
of a Kalman filtering based snow assimilation strategy which
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overcomes
the current 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 products in such an
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assimilation
strategy. Such 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 assimilation scheme for snow
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observation
products, both for near-real-time forecasting and for the accurate
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initialization
of seasonal-to-interannual predictions in the NSIPP fully-coupled
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GCM.
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