NH41D-06
Tracking Flooding, Drought, Fire and other Natural Hazards with GRACE
Thursday, 17 December 2015: 09:15
309 (Moscone South)
James S Famiglietti, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States; University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States
Abstract:
While the NASA GRACE mission has proven adept at tracking rates of ice sheet melting, ocean mass rise, and groundwater depletion, its contributions to understanding regional flooding, drought and fire have received less attention. In this presentation we review the status of GRACE efforts to characterize regional flood potential, quantification of drought parameters, and the occurrence of fire. Examples are used to demonstrate how the use of GRACE data can improve early warning times, or can enhance existing operational methodologies.
