Retrieval of Land Surface Model State Variables through Assimilating Screen Level Humidity and Temperature Measurements

Figure 7

Reference OSSE retrieval experiment for assimilating screen level atmospheric measurements. (a) The convergence of the control variables to the “true” values (dashed lines). (b) Reduction in cost function. (c) Comparison between state trajectories resulting from prior guess initial conditions and retrieved values. (d) is the surface LE and trajectories from initial guess and retrieval as compared with synthetic truth.

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