NLDAS-2 Validation Information
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Soil moisture evaluation:
2014 | Xia et al. | J. Hydrology | Evaluation of multi-model simulated soil moisture in NLDAS-2 |
2015 | Xia et al. | J. Hydrometeorology | Comparison of NLDAS-2 simulated and NASMD observed daily soil moisture. Part I: Comparison and analysis |
2015 | Xia et al. | J. Hydrometeorology | Comparison of NLDAS-2 simulated and NASMD observed daily soil moisture. Part II: Impact of soil texture classification and vegetation type mismatches |
2015 | Xia et al. | J. Appl. Meteor. and Climo. | Automated quality control of in situ soil moisture from the North American Soil Moisture Database using NLDAS-2 products |
Soil temperature evaluation:
2013 | Xia et al. | J. Appl. Meteor. Climatol. | Validation of Noah-simulated soil temperature in NLDAS-2 |
Evapotranspiration evaluation:
2014 | Xia et al. | Hydrological Processes | Evaluation of NLDAS-2 evapotranspiration against tower flux site observations |
2014 | Matsui and Mocko | Chapter in Encyclopedia of Natural Resources - Land - Volume I | Transpiration and physical evaporation: Regional and seasonal variability over the conterminous United States |
2014 | Long et al. | Water Resources Research | Uncertainty in evapotranspiration from land surface modeling, remote sensing, and GRACE satellites |
2011 | Peters-Lidard et al. | Hydrological Processes | Estimating evapotranspiration with land data assimilation systems |
Runoff/streamflow evaluation:
2012 | Xia et al. | J. Geophys. Res. | Continental-scale water and energy flux analysis and validation for NLDAS-2. Part 2: Validation of model-simulated streamflow |
2014 | Kumar et al. | J. Hydrometeorology - Drought Task Force special collection | Assimilation of remotely sensed soil moisture and snow depth retrievals for drought estimation |
Snow evaluation:
2010 | Livneh et al. | J. Hydrometeorology | Noah LSM snow model diagnostics and enhancements |
2014 | Xia et al. | Hydrological Processes | Improved NLDAS-2 Noah-simulated hydrometeorological products with an interim run |
NLDAS validation from NLDAS Phase 1 is also available from NOAA/NCEP/EMC.