The 2nd day of the IESWG meeting covered several Global and Regional Land Data Assimilation Systems their overviews and recent progress.
Few key outcomes:
New SnoTEL network insitu snow depth observation entering GTS, DWD showed benefits (1000 more observations) and challenges for the DWD LDAS. COOP observations should be in the pipeline for being shared.
Assimilating VOD can improve NWP