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This work presents a new method that explores the simultaneous use of remotely sensed surface soil moisture (SM) and snow depth (SD) retrievals to improve hydrological modeling in such areas. In particular, remotely sensed SM and SD retrievals are applied to filter errors present in both solid and liquid phase precipitation accumulation products acquired from satellite remote sensing. Simultaneously, SM and SD retrievals are also used to correct antecedent SM and SD states within a hydrological model. In synthetic data assimilation experiments, results suggest that the simultaneous correction of both precipitation forcing and SM\/SD antecedent conditions is more efficient at improving streamflow simulation than data assimilation techniques which focus solely on the constraint of antecedent SM or SD conditions. In a real assimilation case, results demonstrate the potential benefits of remotely sensed SM and SD retrievals for improving the representation of hydrological processes in a headwater basin. In particular, it is demonstrated that dual precipitation\/state correction represents an efficient strategy for improving the simulation of cold-region hydrological processes.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs8060503","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2016,6,15]],"date-time":"2016-06-15T14:11:19Z","timestamp":1465999879000},"page":"503","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":16,"title":["Improving Streamflow Prediction Using Remotely-Sensed Soil Moisture and Snow Depth"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"8","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-1601-8892","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Haishen","family":"L\u00fc","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"State Key Laboratory of Hydrology-Water Resources and Hydraulic Engineering, College of Hydrology and Water Resources, Hohai University, Nanjing 210098, China"},{"name":"USDA Hydrology and Remote Sensing Laboratory, Beltsville, MD 20705-2350, USA"}]},{"given":"Wade","family":"Crow","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"USDA Hydrology and Remote Sensing Laboratory, Beltsville, MD 20705-2350, USA"}]},{"given":"Yonghua","family":"Zhu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"State Key Laboratory of Hydrology-Water Resources and Hydraulic Engineering, College of Hydrology and Water Resources, Hohai University, Nanjing 210098, China"}]},{"given":"Fen","family":"Ouyang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"State Key Laboratory of Hydrology-Water Resources and Hydraulic Engineering, College of Hydrology and Water Resources, Hohai University, Nanjing 210098, China"}]},{"given":"Jianbin","family":"Su","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"State Key Laboratory of Hydrology-Water Resources and Hydraulic Engineering, College of Hydrology and Water Resources, Hohai University, Nanjing 210098, China"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2016,6,15]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1659","DOI":"10.5194\/hess-19-1659-2015","article-title":"Improving operational flood ensemble prediction by the assimilation of satellite soil moisture: Comparison between lumped and semi-distributed schemes","volume":"19","author":"Ryu","year":"2015","journal-title":"Hydrol. 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