Quantifying the added value of snow cover area observations in passive microwave snow depth data assimilation

Journal of Hydrometeorology

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 1736-1741

  Kumar, Sujay V ^a,b   Peters Lidard, Christa D ^b   Arsenault, Kristi R ^a,b   Getirana, Augusto ^b,c   Mocko, David ^a,b   Liu, Yuqiong ^b,c  

^a SCIENCE APPLICATIONS INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Data assimilation; Land surface model; Snow cover; Snowpack

Indexed keywords

DATA ASSIMILATION; MAPPING; MODIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; SNOW COVER; SNOWPACK;

MISSISSIPPI RIVER; MISSOURI RIVER; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84941285036     PISSN: 1525755X     EISSN: 15257541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JHM-D-15-0021.1     Document Type: Article

References (18)

1. Andreadis, K., and D. Lettenmaier, 2006: Assimilating remotely sensed snow observations into a macroscale hydrology model. Adv. Water Resour., 29, 872-886, doi:10.1016/j.advwatres.2005.08.004.
2. Arsenault, K., P. Houser, G. De Lannoy, and P. Dirmeyer, 2013: Impacts of snow cover fraction data assimilation on modeled energy and moisture budgets. J. Geophys. Res. Atmos., 118, 7489-7504, doi:10.1002/jgrd.50542.
3. Barlage, M., and Coauthors, 2010: Noah land surface model modifications to improve snowpack prediction in the Colorado Rocky Mountains. J. Geophys. Res., 115, D22101, doi:10.1029/2009JD013470.
4. Brown, R., and B. Brasnett, 2010: Canadian Meteorological Centre (CMC) daily snow depth analysis data (updated annually). National Snow and Ice Data Center, accessed January 2014, doi:10.5067/W9FOYWH0EQZ3.
5. De Lannoy, G., R. Reichle, K. Arsenault, P. Houser, S. Kumar, N. Verhoest, and V. Pauwels, 2012: Multiscale assimilation of Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer-EOS snow water equivalent and Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer snow cover fraction observations in northern Colorado. Water Resour. Res., 48, W01522, doi:10.1029/2011WR010588.
6. Dong, J., J. Walker, and P. Houser, 2005: Factors affecting remotely sensed snow water equivalent uncertainty. Remote Sens. Environ., 97, 68-82, doi:10.1016/j.rse.2005.04.010.
7. Ek, M., K. Mitchell, L. Yin, P. Rogers, P. Grunmann, V. Koren, G. Gayno, and J. Tarpley, 2003: Implementation of Noah land surface model advances in the National Centers for Environmental Prediction operational mesoscale Eta mode. J. Geophys. Res., 108, 8851, doi:10.1029/2002JD003296.
8. Getirana, A., A. Boone, D. Yamazaki, B. Decharme, F. Papa, and N. Mognard, 2012: The Hydrological Modeling and Analysis Platform (HyMAP): Evaluation in the Amazon basin. J. Hydrometeor., 13, 1641-1665, doi:10.1175/JHM-D-12-021.1.
9. Hall, D., G. Riggs, V. Valomonson, N. DiGirolamo, and K. Bayr, 2002: MODIS snow-cover products. Remote Sens. Environ., 83, 181-194, doi:10.1016/S0034-4257(02)00095-0.
10. Hall, D., V. Salomonson, and G. Riggs, 2006: MODIS/Terra Snow Cover Daily L3 Global 0.05deg CMG, version 5. National Snow and Ice Data Center, accessed January 2014, doi:10.5067/EI5HGLM2NNHN.
11. Kumar, S., and Coauthors, 2014: Assimilation of remotely sensed soil moisture and snow depth retrievals for drought estimation. J. Hydrometeor., 15, 2446-2469, doi:10.1175/JHM-D-13-0132.1.
12. Liu, Y., C. Peters-Lidard, S. Kumar, J. Foster, M. Shaw, Y. Tian, and G. Fall, 2013: Assimilating satellite-based snow depth and snow cover products for improving snow predictions in Alaska. Adv. Water Resour., 54, 208-227, doi:10.1016/j.advwatres.2013.02.005.
13. Ramsay, B., 1998: The interactive multisensor snow and ice mapping system. Hydrol. Processes, 12, 1537-1546, doi:10.1002/(SICI)1099-1085(199808/09)12:10/11,1537:: AID-HYP679.3.0.CO;2-A.
14. Rodell, M., and P. Houser, 2004: Updating a land surface model with MODIS derived snow cover. J. Hydrometeor., 5, 1064-1075, doi:10.1175/JHM-395.1.
15. Salomonson, V., and I. Appel, 2004: Estimating fractional snow cover from MODIS using the normalized difference snow index. Remote Sens. Environ., 89, 351-360, doi:10.1016/j.rse.2003.10.016.
16. Slaymaker, O., and R. Kelly, 2007: The Cryosphere and Global Environmental Change. Blackwell Publishing, 261 pp.
17. Su, H., Z.-L. Yang, G.-Y. Niu, and R. Dickinson, 2008: Enhancing the estimation of continental-scale snow water equivalent by assimilating MODIS snow cover with the ensemble Kalman filter. J. Geophys. Res., 113, D08120, doi:10.1029/2007JD009232.
18. Xia, Y., and Coauthors, 2012: Continental-scale water and energy flux analysis and validation for the North American Land Data Assimilation System project phase 2 (NLDAS-2): 1. Intercomparison and application of model products. J. Geophys. Res., 117, D03109, doi:10.1029/2011JD016048.