Role of forcing uncertainty and background model error characterization in snow data assimilation

Kumar, Sujay V.; Dong, Jiarui; Peters-Lidard, Christa D.; Mocko, David; Gómez, Breogán

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-21-2637-2017

Articles | Volume 21, issue 6

https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-21-2637-2017

© Author(s) 2017. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-21-2637-2017

© Author(s) 2017. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 21, issue 6

Research article

|

02 Jun 2017

Research article |

| 02 Jun 2017

Role of forcing uncertainty and background model error characterization in snow data assimilation

Sujay V. Kumar, Jiarui Dong, Christa D. Peters-Lidard, David Mocko, and Breogán Gómez

Related authors

Coupling the ParFlow Integrated Hydrology Model within the NASA Land Information System: A case study over the Upper Colorado River Basin

Peyman Abbaszadeh, Fadji Zaouna Maina, Chen Yang, Dan Rosen, Sujay Kumar, Matthew Rodell, and Reed Maxwell

Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci. Discuss., https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-2024-280,https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-2024-280, 2024

Preprint under review for HESS

Short summary

Modeling irrigation and land surface dynamics: comparing AquaCrop and Noah-MP over the Po Valley

Louise Busschaert, Michel Bechtold, Sara Modanesi, Christian Massari, Dirk Raes, Sujay V. Kumar, and Gabrielle J. M. De Lannoy

EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4974019,https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4974019, 2024

Short summary

Reactive nitrogen in and around the northeastern and Mid-Atlantic US: sources, sinks, and connections with ozone

Min Huang, Gregory R. Carmichael, James H. Crawford, Kevin W. Bowman, Isabelle De Smedt, Andreas Colliander, Michael H. Cosh, Sujay V. Kumar, Alex B. Guenther, Scott J. Janz, Ryan M. Stauffer, Anne M. Thompson, Niko M. Fedkin, Robert J. Swap, John D. Bolten, and Alicia T. Joseph

EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2024-484,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2024-484, 2024

Short summary

Extending the utility of space-borne snow water equivalent observations over vegetated areas with data assimilation

Justin M. Pflug, Melissa L. Wrzesien, Sujay V. Kumar, Eunsang Cho, Kristi R. Arsenault, Paul R. Houser, and Carrie M. Vuyovich

Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 28, 631–648, https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-28-631-2024,https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-28-631-2024, 2024

Short summary

Assimilation of airborne gamma observations provides utility for snow estimation in forested environments

Eunsang Cho, Yonghwan Kwon, Sujay V. Kumar, and Carrie M. Vuyovich

Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 27, 4039–4056, https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-27-4039-2023,https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-27-4039-2023, 2023

Short summary

Towards effective drought monitoring in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region: implications from assimilating leaf area index and soil moisture into the Noah-MP land surface model for Morocco

Wanshu Nie, Sujay V. Kumar, Kristi R. Arsenault, Christa D. Peters-Lidard, Iliana E. Mladenova, Karim Bergaoui, Abheera Hazra, Benjamin F. Zaitchik, Sarith P. Mahanama, Rachael McDonnell, David M. Mocko, and Mahdi Navari

Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 26, 2365–2386, https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-26-2365-2022,https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-26-2365-2022, 2022

Short summary

Snow Ensemble Uncertainty Project (SEUP): quantification of snow water equivalent uncertainty across North America via ensemble land surface modeling

Rhae Sung Kim, Sujay Kumar, Carrie Vuyovich, Paul Houser, Jessica Lundquist, Lawrence Mudryk, Michael Durand, Ana Barros, Edward J. Kim, Barton A. Forman, Ethan D. Gutmann, Melissa L. Wrzesien, Camille Garnaud, Melody Sandells, Hans-Peter Marshall, Nicoleta Cristea, Justin M. Pflug, Jeremy Johnston, Yueqian Cao, David Mocko, and Shugong Wang

The Cryosphere, 15, 771–791, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-15-771-2021,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-15-771-2021, 2021

Short summary

Developing a hydrological monitoring and sub-seasonal to seasonal forecasting system for South and Southeast Asian river basins

Yifan Zhou, Benjamin F. Zaitchik, Sujay V. Kumar, Kristi R. Arsenault, Mir A. Matin, Faisal M. Qamer, Ryan A. Zamora, and Kiran Shakya

Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 25, 41–61, https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-25-41-2021,https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-25-41-2021, 2021

Short summary

Improving early warning of drought-driven food insecurity in southern Africa using operational hydrological monitoring and forecasting products

Shraddhanand Shukla, Kristi R. Arsenault, Abheera Hazra, Christa Peters-Lidard, Randal D. Koster, Frank Davenport, Tamuka Magadzire, Chris Funk, Sujay Kumar, Amy McNally, Augusto Getirana, Greg Husak, Ben Zaitchik, Jim Verdin, Faka Dieudonne Nsadisa, and Inbal Becker-Reshef

Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci., 20, 1187–1201, https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-20-1187-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-20-1187-2020, 2020

Short summary

The Land surface Data Toolkit (LDT v7.2) – a data fusion environment for land data assimilation systems

Kristi R. Arsenault, Sujay V. Kumar, James V. Geiger, Shugong Wang, Eric Kemp, David M. Mocko, Hiroko Kato Beaudoing, Augusto Getirana, Mahdi Navari, Bailing Li, Jossy Jacob, Jerry Wegiel, and Christa D. Peters-Lidard

Geosci. Model Dev., 11, 3605–3621, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-11-3605-2018,https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-11-3605-2018, 2018

Short summary

More articles (15)

Coupling the ParFlow Integrated Hydrology Model within the NASA Land Information System: A case study over the Upper Colorado River Basin

Peyman Abbaszadeh, Fadji Zaouna Maina, Chen Yang, Dan Rosen, Sujay Kumar, Matthew Rodell, and Reed Maxwell

Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci. Discuss., https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-2024-280,https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-2024-280, 2024

Preprint under review for HESS

Short summary

Modeling irrigation and land surface dynamics: comparing AquaCrop and Noah-MP over the Po Valley

Louise Busschaert, Michel Bechtold, Sara Modanesi, Christian Massari, Dirk Raes, Sujay V. Kumar, and Gabrielle J. M. De Lannoy

EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4974019,https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4974019, 2024

Short summary

Enhancing Winter Climate Simulations of the Great Lakes: Insights from a New Coupled Lake-Ice-Atmosphere (CLIAv1) Model on the Importance of Integrating 3D Hydrodynamics with a Regional Climate Model

Pengfei Xue, Chenfu Huang, Yafang Zhong, Michael Notaro, Miraj B. Kayastha, Xing Zhou, Chuyan Zhao, Christa Peters-Lidard, Carlos Cruz, and Eric Kemp

Geosci. Model Dev. Discuss., https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-2024-146,https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-2024-146, 2024

Preprint under review for GMD

Short summary

Reactive nitrogen in and around the northeastern and Mid-Atlantic US: sources, sinks, and connections with ozone

Min Huang, Gregory R. Carmichael, James H. Crawford, Kevin W. Bowman, Isabelle De Smedt, Andreas Colliander, Michael H. Cosh, Sujay V. Kumar, Alex B. Guenther, Scott J. Janz, Ryan M. Stauffer, Anne M. Thompson, Niko M. Fedkin, Robert J. Swap, John D. Bolten, and Alicia T. Joseph

EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2024-484,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2024-484, 2024

Short summary

Extending the utility of space-borne snow water equivalent observations over vegetated areas with data assimilation

Justin M. Pflug, Melissa L. Wrzesien, Sujay V. Kumar, Eunsang Cho, Kristi R. Arsenault, Paul R. Houser, and Carrie M. Vuyovich

Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 28, 631–648, https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-28-631-2024,https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-28-631-2024, 2024

Short summary

Towards effective drought monitoring in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region: implications from assimilating leaf area index and soil moisture into the Noah-MP land surface model for Morocco

Wanshu Nie, Sujay V. Kumar, Kristi R. Arsenault, Christa D. Peters-Lidard, Iliana E. Mladenova, Karim Bergaoui, Abheera Hazra, Benjamin F. Zaitchik, Sarith P. Mahanama, Rachael McDonnell, David M. Mocko, and Mahdi Navari

Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 26, 2365–2386, https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-26-2365-2022,https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-26-2365-2022, 2022

Short summary

Snow Ensemble Uncertainty Project (SEUP): quantification of snow water equivalent uncertainty across North America via ensemble land surface modeling

Rhae Sung Kim, Sujay Kumar, Carrie Vuyovich, Paul Houser, Jessica Lundquist, Lawrence Mudryk, Michael Durand, Ana Barros, Edward J. Kim, Barton A. Forman, Ethan D. Gutmann, Melissa L. Wrzesien, Camille Garnaud, Melody Sandells, Hans-Peter Marshall, Nicoleta Cristea, Justin M. Pflug, Jeremy Johnston, Yueqian Cao, David Mocko, and Shugong Wang

The Cryosphere, 15, 771–791, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-15-771-2021,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-15-771-2021, 2021

Short summary

Developing a hydrological monitoring and sub-seasonal to seasonal forecasting system for South and Southeast Asian river basins

Yifan Zhou, Benjamin F. Zaitchik, Sujay V. Kumar, Kristi R. Arsenault, Mir A. Matin, Faisal M. Qamer, Ryan A. Zamora, and Kiran Shakya

Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 25, 41–61, https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-25-41-2021,https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-25-41-2021, 2021

Short summary

Improving early warning of drought-driven food insecurity in southern Africa using operational hydrological monitoring and forecasting products

Shraddhanand Shukla, Kristi R. Arsenault, Abheera Hazra, Christa Peters-Lidard, Randal D. Koster, Frank Davenport, Tamuka Magadzire, Chris Funk, Sujay Kumar, Amy McNally, Augusto Getirana, Greg Husak, Ben Zaitchik, Jim Verdin, Faka Dieudonne Nsadisa, and Inbal Becker-Reshef

Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci., 20, 1187–1201, https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-20-1187-2020,https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-20-1187-2020, 2020

Short summary

The Land surface Data Toolkit (LDT v7.2) – a data fusion environment for land data assimilation systems

Kristi R. Arsenault, Sujay V. Kumar, James V. Geiger, Shugong Wang, Eric Kemp, David M. Mocko, Hiroko Kato Beaudoing, Augusto Getirana, Mahdi Navari, Bailing Li, Jossy Jacob, Jerry Wegiel, and Christa D. Peters-Lidard

Geosci. Model Dev., 11, 3605–3621, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-11-3605-2018,https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-11-3605-2018, 2018

Short summary

Related subject area

Subject: Snow and Ice | Techniques and Approaches: Uncertainty analysis

Interactions between thresholds and spatial discretizations of snow: insights from estimates of wolverine denning habitat in the Colorado Rocky Mountains

Justin M. Pflug, Yiwen Fang, Steven A. Margulis, and Ben Livneh

Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 27, 2747–2762, https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-27-2747-2023,https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-27-2747-2023, 2023

Short summary

Future evolution and uncertainty of river flow regime change in a deglaciating river basin

Jonathan D. Mackay, Nicholas E. Barrand, David M. Hannah, Stefan Krause, Christopher R. Jackson, Jez Everest, Guðfinna Aðalgeirsdóttir, and Andrew R. Black

Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 23, 1833–1865, https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-23-1833-2019,https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-23-1833-2019, 2019

Short summary

Cited articles

Anderson, J. and Anderson, S.: A Monte Carlo implementation of the nonliner filtering problem to produce ensemble assimilations and forecasts, Mon. Weather Rev., 127, 2741–2758, 1999.

Bosilovich, M. G., Robertson, F. R., Takacs, L., Molod, A., and Mocko, D.: Atmospheric Water Balance and Variability in the MERRA-2 Reanalysis, J. Climate, 30, 1177–1196, https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-16-0338.1, 2017.

Brown, R. and Braaten, R.: Spatial and temporal variability of Canadian monthly snow depths, Atmos. Ocean, 36, 37–54, https://doi.org/10.1080/07055900.1998.9649605, 1998.

Chang, A., Foster, J., and Hall, D.: Nimbus-07 SMMR derived global snow cover parameters, Ann. Glaciol., 9, 39–44, 1987.

Crow, W. and Wood, E.: The assimilation of remotely sensed soil brightness temperature imagery into a land surface model using ensemble Kalman filtering: A case study based on ESTAR measurements during SGP97, Adv. Water Resour., 26, 137–149, 2003.