H44F:
Remote Sensing and Modeling of Water Resources II


Session ID#: 10595

Session Description:
Monitoring and predicting changes in water resources is essential for mitigating the pressures of population growth and climate change, but in most of the world monitoring is hampered by the scarcity of in situ measurements and barriers to data access. Remote sensing and numerical modeling hold promise for filling data gaps and enabling regional scale water resources assessments.  In particular, GRACE is the only global observing system able to detect changes in all water storage components including groundwater.  This session invites presentations on techniques for monitoring, modeling, and predicting the storage and fluxes of groundwater and other water resources, links to drought, climate change, and global water cycle variability, prospects for extending the value of existing knowledge and observational records across scales, and studies that use multiple data sources and/or processing techniques to interpret and enhance GRACE observations.
Primary Convener:  Matthew Rodell, NASA GSFC HSL, Greenbelt, United States
Conveners:  Bridget R Scanlon, University of Texas at Austin, Bureau of Economic Geology, Austin, TX, United States, Himanshu Save, The University of Texas at Austin, Center for Space Research, Austin, United States and James S Famiglietti, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States
Chairs:  Matthew Rodell, NASA GSFC HSL, Greenbelt, United States, Bridget R Scanlon, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States, Himanshu Save, The University of Texas at Austin, Center for Space Research, Austin, United States and James S Famiglietti, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Himanshu Save, The University of Texas at Austin, Center for Space Research, Austin, United States

Cross-Listed:
  • G - Geodesy
  • GC - Global Environmental Change
Index Terms:

1217 Time variable gravity [GEODESY AND GRAVITY]
1616 Climate variability [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1829 Groundwater hydrology [HYDROLOGY]
1836 Hydrological cycles and budgets [HYDROLOGY]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Towards a high resolution, integrated hydrology model of North America. (Invited) (60561)
Reed M Maxwell1 and Laura E Condon1,2, (1)Colorado School of Mines, Hydrologic Science and Engineering Program and Department of Geology and Geological Engineering, Golden, CO, United States, (2)Syracuse University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Syracuse, NY, United States
Evaluating Water Sustainability across the High Plains Aquifer using Remote Sensing and Process-Based Hydrology Models (85994)
David W Hyndman1, Anthony D Kendall2, Samuel J. Smidt3, Jillian M Deines2, Xiao Liu4, Kayla Ann Cotterman5 and Erin Marie King Haacker5, (1)Michigan State University, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, East Lansing, United States, (2)Michigan State University, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, East Lansing, MI, United States, (3)University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, United States, (4)Michigan State University, Earth and Environmental Sciences, East Lansing, MI, United States, (5)Michigan State University, Geological Sciences, East Lansing, MI, United States
Monitoring groundwater drought with GRACE data assimilation (Invited) (64473)
Bailing Li, Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, University of Maryland, College Park, United States; NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Matthew Rodell, NASA GSFC HSL, Greenbelt, United States, Hiroko K Kato-Beaudoing, NASA GSFC HSL (ESSIC University of Maryland), Greenbelt, MD, United States, Augusto Getirana, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Benjamin F Zaitchik, Johns Hopkins University, Earth & Planetary Sciences, Baltimore, MD, United States
Using the Community Land Model to Assess Uncertainty in Basin Scale GRACE-Based Groundwater Estimates (73461)
Sean C Swenson, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States and David M Lawrence, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, United States
Improved Uncertainty Quantification in Groundwater Flux Estimation Using GRACE (Invited) (61055)
John T Reager II, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States, Preeti Rao, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, James S Famiglietti, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States and Michael Turmon, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States
Global analysis of approaches for deriving total water storage changes from GRACE satellites and implications for groundwater storage change estimation (Invited) (61193)
Di Long, Tsinghua University, Department of Hydraulic Engineering, Beijing, China, Bridget R Scanlon, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States, Laurent Longuevergne, CNRS - Rennes University, Geosciences Rennes, Rennes, France and Xi Chen, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
GRACE Mass Flux Measurements of Inland and Marginal Seas from Mascons: Analysis and Validation (80043)
Bryant D Loomis1, Scott B Luthcke2 and Terence J Sabaka1, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Geodesy and Geophysics Laboratory, Greenbelt, United States, (2)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Assessing the Use of Remote Sensing and a Crop Growth Model to Improve Modeled Streamflow in Central Asia (75648)
Alexandra Richey McLarty1, Jeffrey E Richey2, Amanda Tan3, Mingliang Liu4, Jennifer C Adam4 and Vadim Sokolov5, (1)University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States, (2)University of Washington Seattle Campus, Seattle, WA, United States, (3)University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States, (4)Washington State University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Pullman, WA, United States, (5)Interstate Commission for Water Coordination of Central Asia, Tashkent, Uzbekistan

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