The plumbing of land surface models: Is poor performance a result of methodology or data quality?

Haughton, N., Abramowitz, G., Pitman, A., Or, D., Best, M., Johnson, H., Balsamo, G., Boone, A., Cuntz, M., Decharme, B. (2016). The plumbing of land surface models: Is poor performance a result of methodology or data quality?, Journal of Hydrometeorology, 17 (6), 1705-1723, American Meteorological Society