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

Table 4

Initial states retrieval using synthetic data.

Initial guess control variable				Initial RMS error in	/	# it. needed	Retrieved initial condition
300.8	303.5	0.303	0.328				2.27	2.52 × 10^−4	6	295.7	298.9	0.254	0.274
298.3	301.0	0.278	0.303	1.07	1.71 × 10^−2	8	296.2	299.0	0.251	0.290
297.0	299.8	0.265	0.291	0.52	4.26 × 10^−2	9	296.2	298.8	0.252	0.287
300	300	0.35	0.35	3.05	1.04 × 10^−3	15	295.5	297.4	0.243	0.302
300	300	0.2	0.2	2.88	8.11 × 10^−2	12	293.2	296.0	0.255	0.199
300	300	0.4	0.4	1.37	0.4	4	297.5	298.2	0.4	0.378