A Successful Example of Transitioning Research to NCEP Operations: The North American Land Data Assimilation System (NLDAS)
Michael B. Ek, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/EMC, College Park, MD; and Y. Xia, H. Wei, J. Meng, K. Mitchell (retired), E. F. Wood, J. Sheffield, C. Peters-Lidard, D. Mocko, B. Cosgrove, D. P. Lettenmaier, K. Mo, W. Ebisuzaki, M. Rosencrans, L. Luo, and E. Luebehusen