Catchment-averaged Soil Moisture and Runoff Output from the NASA GEOS Catchment Land Surface Model

Overview:<br>Matlab file containing 1) daily-averaged surface soil moisture ("SM_daily_sz"), 2) daily-averaged root-zone soil moisture ("SM_daily_rz"), 3) daily-total surface runoff ("srun_daily") and 4) daily-total baseflow runoff ("bf_daily") generated by the NASA Goddard Earth Observing System (GEOS) Catchment land surface model (CLSM) for 16 medium-scale (2000 to 10,000 km²) hydrologic basins within the south-central United States. <br><br>For more information on the GEOS-CLSM simulations see Section 2a of the following article:<br>Reichle, R. et al., Assessment of the SMAP Level-4 Surface and Root-Zone Soil Moisture Product Using In Situ Measurements. Journal of Hydrometeorology, 18, 2621–2645, doi:10.1175/JHM-D-17-0063.1, 2017.<br><br>Timing notes: <br>Day 1 = 31 March 2015<br>Day 793 = 1 May 2017<br>Day is 0 to 23:59 UTC<br><br>Data units:<br>Soil moisture is given in daily-averaged volumetric soil moisture (m³/m³)<br>Runoff is given in total mm/day.<br><br>Spatial domain:<br>For spatial details on the basins see Table 1 and Figure 1 in:<br>Crow, W.T., Chen, F., Reichle, R.H., and Liu, Q. L Band Microwave Remote Sensing and Land Data Assimilation Improve the Representation of Prestorm Soil Moisture Conditions for Hydrologic Forecasting. <i>Geophysical Research Letters</i>, 44(11), 5495–5503, doi:10.1002/2017GL073642, 2017.<br><br>Contact: [e-mail]<br><br>