Hua Su

TL;DR: In this article, the authors developed a simple groundwater model (SIMGM) by representing recharge and discharge processes of the water storage in an unconfined aquifer, which is added as a single integration element below the soil of a land surface model.

TL;DR: In this article, three snowpack models of varying complexity and purpose were evaluated across a wide range of hydrometeorological and forest canopy conditions at five Northern Hemisphere locations, for up to three months.

TL;DR: In this article, the influence of atmospheric moisture fluxes and land surface soil moisture on local precipitation, with a focus on the southern United States (U.S.), was investigated, and it was shown that the variation of moisture flux convergence (MFC) is more important than that of soil moisture for precipitation variation over the southern U.S.

TL;DR: In this paper, a multisensor snow data assimilation system over North America (from January 2002 to June 2007) was established, with the goal of better estimation of snowpack (in particular, snow water equivalent and snow depth) via incorporating both Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) terrestrial water storage (TWS) and Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) snow cover fraction (SCF) information into the Community Land Model.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the feasibility of a framework for developing high quality continental-scale snow water equivalent (SWE) data sets over North America, through the EnKF approach, which assimilates the snow cover fraction observed by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) into the Community Land Model (CLM).