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

Overview: 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. For more information on the GEOS-CLSM simulations see Section 2a of the following article: 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. Timing notes: Day 1 = 31 March 2015 Day 793 = 1 May 2017 Day is 0 to 23:59 UTC Data units: Soil moisture is given in daily-averaged volumetric soil moisture (m3/m3) Runoff is given in total mm/day. Spatial domain: For spatial details on the basins see Table 1 and Figure 1 in: 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. Geophysical Research Letters, 44(11), 5495–5503, doi:10.1002/2017GL073642, 2017. Contact: [e-mail]