Articles | Volume 21, issue 4
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-21-2015-2017
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-21-2015-2017
Research article
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13 Apr 2017
Research article |  | 13 Apr 2017

The effect of satellite-derived surface soil moisture and leaf area index land data assimilation on streamflow simulations over France

David Fairbairn, Alina Lavinia Barbu, Adrien Napoly, Clément Albergel, Jean-François Mahfouf, and Jean-Christophe Calvet

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This study assesses the impact on river discharge simulations over France of assimilating ASCAT-derived surface soil moisture (SSM) and leaf area index (LAI) observations into the ISBA land surface model. Wintertime LAI has a notable impact on river discharge. SSM assimilation degrades river discharge simulations. This is caused by limitations in the simplified versions of the Kalman filter and ISBA model used in this study. Implementing an observation operator for ASCAT is needed.