H12E:
Understanding the Interface Between Models and Data II

Monday, 15 December 2014: 10:20 AM-12:20 PM
Chairs:  Benjamin L Ruddell, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States and Kenneth W Harrison, UMD ESSIC/NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Primary Conveners:  Grey S Nearing, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Co-conveners:  Benjamin L Ruddell, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States, Jasper A Vrugt, UC-Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States and Kenneth W Harrison, UMD ESSIC/NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States
OSPA Liaisons:  Grey S Nearing, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

10:20 AM
 
Towards Fully Integrated Natural and Virtual Hydrologic Laboratories
Enrique R Vivoni, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States
10:35 AM
 
Remote sensing of vegetation ecophysiological function for improved hydrologic prediction
Darren Drewry, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States and Benjamin L Ruddell, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States
10:50 AM
 
Benchmarking the Performance of a Land Data Assimilation System for Agricultural Drought Monitoring
Wade T Crow, Hydrol and Remote Sensing Lab, Beltsville, MD, United States and Eunjin Han, International Research Institute for Climate and Society, Columbia University, Palisades, NY, United States
11:05 AM
 
Progressive evaluation of incorporating information into a model building process: from scratch to FLEX-TOPO
Shervan Gharari1,2, Markus Hrachowitz3, Fabrizio Fenicia4, Hongkai Gao3, Hoshin Vijai Gupta5 and Hubert Savenije1, (1)Delft University of Technology, Delft, 5612, Netherlands, (2)CRP Gabriel Lippmann, Belvaux, Luxembourg, (3)Delft University of Technology, Delft, Netherlands, (4)EAWAG Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology, Duebendorf, Switzerland, (5)University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States
11:20 AM
 
Model Selection on Solid Ground: Comparison of Techniques to Evaluate Bayesian Evidence
Wolfgang Nowak, University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany, Anneli Schöniger, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany, Luis E Samaniego, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research UFZ Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany and Thomas Wöhling, University of Tübingen, Water & Earth System Science Competence Cluster (WESS), Tübingen, Germany
11:35 AM
 
How physical process knowledge adds information to predictions; an Algorithmic Information Theory perspective
Steven V Weijs, EPFL Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland and Marc B Parlange, University of British Columbia, Civil Engineering, Vancouver, BC, Canada; École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, School of Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Lausanne, Switzerland
11:50 AM
 
Joint bias correction of temperature and precipitation in climate model simulations
Chao Li1, Anna M Michalak1,2, Eva Sinha1,2, Daniel E Horton2 and Noah S Diffenbaugh2, (1)Carnegie Institution for Science, Stanford, CA, United States, (2)Stanford Earth Sciences, Environmental Earth System Science, Stanford, CA, United States
12:05 PM
 
Use of Bayesian Networks to Combine USGS Surface Water Observations with Hydraulic Geometry Models towards Riverine Discharge Estimation
K Todd Holland and Margaret L Palmsten, Naval Research Lab, Stennis Space Center, MS, United States
 
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