SMAP L3 Enhanced Data Assimilation

[dfrancis827]

Greetings,

I am attempting to use SMAP Level 3 Enhanced (9 km) soil moisture in data assimilation within LIS. I first the tutorial using 36 km SMAP L3 data as described in the walkthrough for the LIS testcases. I then reran the tutorial, but replaced 36 km SMAP L3 data with 9 km SMAP L3_E data. I did this to 1) Compare results of 36 km SMAP L3 data assimilation vs 9 km SMAP L3_E data assimilation and 2) To ensure that LIS assimilation would run properly with L3_E data. Moving on to my issue: After successfully running the tutorial using both SMAP L3 and L3_E data, I then moved to attempting to run LIS over my own area of interest. I constructed a 100 km x 100 km domain over my area of interest and used a resolution of 0.05 in both dx and dy. I then successfully (according to the logs) created the LIS input file, ran LIS using NLDAS forcing for an OL run, created a CDF from the OL run, created a CDF from the SMAP L3_E data and ran the LIS assimilation between OL and SMAP data. My trouble comes from running LVT. When I run LVT over two locations within my domain, I get values for soil moisture from the OL data, but I only get -0.99999 E+04 (i.e., missing data) for all dates within my range for the SMAP data.

Summary: LVT run yields OL data, no data from SMAP estimates

I have attached the logs from the LIS assimilation and the LVT runs

lislog_smapda.0000.txt
lvtlog.smapDAobs.0000.txt
lvtlog_ol_da.0000.txt