Articles | Volume 11, issue 9
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-11-3605-2018
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-11-3605-2018
Model description paper
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05 Sep 2018
Model description paper |  | 05 Sep 2018

The Land surface Data Toolkit (LDT v7.2) – a data fusion environment for land data assimilation systems

Kristi R. Arsenault, Sujay V. Kumar, James V. Geiger, Shugong Wang, Eric Kemp, David M. Mocko, Hiroko Kato Beaudoing, Augusto Getirana, Mahdi Navari, Bailing Li, Jossy Jacob, Jerry Wegiel, and Christa D. Peters-Lidard

Model code and software

The Land surface Data Toolkit (LDT) Kristi R Arsenault; Sujay Kumar; James Geiger; Shugong Wang; Eric Kemp; Hiroko Beaudoing; David Mocko; Mahdi Navari; Bailing Li https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1322612

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Short summary
The Earth’s land surface hydrology and physics can be represented in highly sophisticated models known as land surface models. The Land surface Data Toolkit (LDT) software was developed to meet these models’ input processing needs. LDT supports a variety of land surface and hydrology models and prepares the inputs (e.g., meteorological data, satellite observations to be assimilated into a model), which can be used for inter-model studies and to initialize weather and climate forecasts.