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https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-11-3605-2018
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https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-11-3605-2018
© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Model description paper
| 
05 Sep 2018
Model description paper |
| 05 Sep 2018
| 05 Sep 2018
The Land surface Data Toolkit (LDT v7.2) – a data fusion environment for land data assimilation systems
Kristi R. Arsenault
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Science Applications International Corporation, McLean, VA, USA
Hydrological Sciences Laboratory, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, USA
Sujay V. Kumar
Hydrological Sciences Laboratory, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, USA
James V. Geiger
Science Data Processing Branch, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, USA
Shugong Wang
Science Applications International Corporation, McLean, VA, USA
Hydrological Sciences Laboratory, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, USA
Eric Kemp
Hydrological Sciences Laboratory, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, USA
Science Systems and Applications, Inc., Lanham, MD, USA
David M. Mocko
Science Applications International Corporation, McLean, VA, USA
Hydrological Sciences Laboratory, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, USA
Hiroko Kato Beaudoing
Hydrological Sciences Laboratory, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, USA
ESSIC, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA
Augusto Getirana
Hydrological Sciences Laboratory, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, USA
ESSIC, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA
Mahdi Navari
Hydrological Sciences Laboratory, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, USA
ESSIC, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA
Bailing Li
Hydrological Sciences Laboratory, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, USA
ESSIC, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA
Jossy Jacob
Hydrological Sciences Laboratory, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, USA
Science Systems and Applications, Inc., Lanham, MD, USA
Jerry Wegiel
Science Applications International Corporation, McLean, VA, USA
Headquarters 557th Weather Wing, Offutt Air Force Base, NE, USA
Christa D. Peters-Lidard
Earth Sciences Division, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, USA
Model code and software
The Land surface Data Toolkit (LDT) Kristi R Arsenault; Sujay Kumar; James Geiger; Shugong Wang; Eric Kemp; Hiroko Beaudoing; David Mocko; Mahdi Navari; Bailing Li https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1322612
Short summary
The Earth’s land surface hydrology and physics can be represented in highly sophisticated models known as land surface models. The Land surface Data Toolkit (LDT) software was developed to meet these models’ input processing needs. LDT supports a variety of land surface and hydrology models and prepares the inputs (e.g., meteorological data, satellite observations to be assimilated into a model), which can be used for inter-model studies and to initialize weather and climate forecasts.
The Earth’s land surface hydrology and physics can be represented in highly sophisticated...
