H11M:
Large-Scale Field Experiments and Long-Term Observing Networks I

Monday, 15 December 2014: 8:00 AM-10:00 AM
Chairs:  Chris Soulsby, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, United Kingdom and Stephen D Sebestyen, USDA Forest Service, Grand Rapids, MN, United States
Primary Conveners:  Michael H Cosh, U. S. Dept. of Agriculture, Beltsville, MD, United States
Co-conveners:  Paul D Brooks, Univ Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States, Stephen D Sebestyen, USDA Forest Service, Grand Rapids, MN, United States and Nobuhito Ohte, University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Japan
OSPA Liaisons:  Michael H Cosh, U. S. Dept. of Agriculture, Beltsville, MD, United States

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

8:00 AM
 
Multi-Scale Soil Moisture Monitoring and Modeling at ARS Watersheds for NASA’s Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) Calibration/Validation Mission
Evan J Coopersmith, US Department of Agriculture, Beltsville, MD, United States and Michael H Cosh, U. S. Dept. of Agriculture, Beltsville, MD, United States
8:15 AM
 
Recent advances in downscaling soil moisture from satellite to field scale
Venkataraman Lakshmi, Univ South Carolina, Columbia, SC, United States
8:30 AM
 
Processes influencing rainfall features in the Amazonian region
Tobias Gerken1, Marcelo Chamecki2, Jose D Fuentes1, Gabriel George Katul3, David R Fitzjarrald4, Antonio O Manzi5, Rosa M Nascimento dos Santos6, Celso von Randow7, Paul C Stoy8, Julio Tota9, Amy Trowbridge10, Courtney Schumacher11 and Luiz Machado7, (1)Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, United States, (2)Pennsylvania State University, Department of Meteorology, University Park, PA, United States, (3)Duke University, Durham, NC, United States, (4)State University of New York at Albany, Albany, NY, United States, (5)Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, Manaus, Brazil, (6)University of the State of Amazonas (UEA), Manaus, Brazil, (7)Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais, São José dos Campos, Brazil, (8)Montana State University, Bozeman, MT, United States, (9)Federal University of West Para, Institute of Engineering and Geoscience, Santarem, PA, Brazil, (10)Indiana University Bloomington, Bloomington, IN, United States, (11)Texas A&M Univ, College Station, TX, United States
8:45 AM
 
The GPM GV Integrated Precipitation and Hydrology Experiment (IPHEx) in the Southern Appalachians- Focus on Water Cycle Processes
Ana Paula Barros1, Jing Tao2, Di Wu3, Miguel Nogueira4, Christa D Peters-Lidard5, Jonathan J Gourley6, Emmanouil N Anagnostou7, David P Genereux8, Lauren Lowman1 and Edward J Kim3, (1)Duke University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Durham, NC, United States, (2)Duke University, Durham, NC, United States, (3)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (4)Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal, (5)NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (6)National Severe Storms Lab, Oklahoma City, OK, United States, (7)University of Connecticut, Groton, CT, United States, (8)North Carolina State Univ, Raleigh, NC, United States
9:00 AM
 
Utilizing LiDAR Datasets From Experimental Watersheds to Advance Ecohydrological Understanding in Seasonally Snow-Covered Forests
Adrian Adam Harpold, University of Nevada Reno, Natural Resources and Environmental Science, Reno, NV, United States, Patrick D Broxton, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States, Qinghua Guo, University of California Merced, Merced, CA, United States, Michael J Barlage, NCAR/RAL, Boulder, CO, United States and David J Gochis, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States
9:15 AM
 
Long-Term Network Experiments and Interdisciplinary Campaigns Conducted by the USDA-Agricultural Research Service
David C Goodrich1, William P Kustas2, Michael H Cosh3, Susan M Moran1, Danny G Marks4, Thomas J Jackson2, David D Bosch5, Albert Rango6, Mark S Seyfried7, Russell L Scott1, John H Prueger8, Patrick j Starks9 and Mark R Walbridge10, (1)Agricultural Research Service Tucson, Tucson, AZ, United States, (2)USDA ARS, Beltsville, MD, United States, (3)U. S. Dept. of Agriculture, Beltsville, MD, United States, (4)USDA Agriculture Research Serv, Boise, ID, United States, (5)USDA ARS, Tifton, GA, United States, (6)USDA ARS, Las Cruces, NM, United States, (7)US Dept Agr ARS, Boise, ID, United States, (8)USDA ARS NLAE, Ames, IA, United States, (9)USDA-ARS, El Reno, OK, United States, (10)USDA ARS, Pendleton, OR, United States
9:30 AM
 
Enabling cross-site and multi-network research through community services
Richard P Hooper, Martin Seul and Alva Couch, Consortium of Universities for the Advancement of Hydrological Science, Water Data Center, Washington, DC, United States
9:45 AM
 
A Rangeland Hydrology and Erosion Model for Developing Ecological Site Descriptions
Mark Almon Nearing1,2, Mariano Hernandez3, Gerardo Armendariz2,3, Steve Barker3 and C. Jason Williams4, (1)USDA ARS, Pendleton, OR, United States, (2)USDA-ARS, Southwest Watershed Research Center, Tucson, AZ, United States, (3)USDA ARS, Tucson, AZ, United States, (4)USDA-ARS, Boise, ID, United States
 
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