H41L
Remote Sensing and Modeling of the Terrestrial Water Cycle I

Thursday, 17 December 2015: 08:00-10:00
3022 (Moscone West)
Primary Conveners:  Iliana E Mladenova, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Conveners:  Venkataraman Lakshmi, Univ South Carolina, Columbia, SC, United States
Chairs:  Iliana E Mladenova, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Venkataraman Lakshmi, Univ South Carolina, Columbia, SC, United States
OSPA Liaisons:  Iliana E Mladenova, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
08:00
The Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) Mission contributions to terrestrial hydrology and societal applications (Invited) (59948)
Dalia Bach Kirschbaum, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Hydrological Sciences Laboratory, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Gail Skofronick Jackson, NASA-GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States and George John Huffman, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
08:15
Multivariate assimilation of satellite-derived land remote sensing datasets: Advances, gaps and challenges (Invited) (59933)
Sujay Kumar1, Christa D Peters-Lidard1, David M Mocko1, Michael F Jasinski1, Rolf H Reichle2, Benjamin F Zaitchik3, Augusto Getirana1, Matthew Rodell4, Youlong Xia5, Michael B Ek6 and Sujay V. Kumar, Christa D. Peters-Lidard, David Mocko, Rolf Reichle, Ben Zaitchik, Mattew Rodell, Michael Jasinski, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (3)Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States, (4)NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (5)Environmental Modeling Center, College Park, MD, United States, (6)NOAA NWS NCEP/EMC, College Park, MD, United States
08:30
Assimilation of soil moisture retrievals or brightness temperature observations from SMOS and SMAP into the GEOS-5 land surface model (Invited) (60344)
Gabrielle J.M. De Lannoy, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States; Universities Space Research Association Columbia, Columbia, MD, United States
08:45
Enhancing The USDA Global Crop Assessment Decision Support System Using Satellite-Based Soil Moisture Estimates Obtained From The Soil Moisture Active Passive Mission (74979)
Iliana E Mladenova1, John D Bolten1, Wade T Crow2 and Curt A Reynolds3, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)USDA Agricultural Research Service New England Plant, Soil and Water Research Laboratory, East Wareham, MA, United States, (3)Organization Not Listed, Washington, DC, United States
09:00
Passive/Active Microwave Soil Moisture Disaggregation Using SMAPVEX12 Data (58585)
Bin Fang, University of South Carolina Columbia, Columbia, SC, United States; Columbia University of New York, Palisades, NY, United States, Venkataraman Lakshmi, Univ South Carolina, Columbia, SC, United States, Rajat Bindlish, Science Systems and Applications, Inc., Lanham, MD, United States, Thomas J Jackson, USDA ARS, Pendleton, OR, United States and Andreas Colliander, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
09:15
Using Passive Microwaves for Open Water Monitoring and Flood Forecasting (Invited) (60644)
Robert Parinussa1, Fiona Johnson1 and Ashish Sharma2, (1)University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia, (2)University of New South Wales, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Sydney, NSW, Australia
09:30
Characterization of Inundated Wetlands with Microwave Remote Sensing: Cross-Product Comparison for Uncertainty Assessment in Tropical Wetlands (74782)
Kyle C McDonald, CUNY City College, Earth and Atmospheric Science, New York, NY, United States
09:45
Effects of Regional Topography and Spacecraft Observation Geometry on Surface Soil Moisture Estimation Accuracies (75798)
Ruzbeh Akbar and Mahta Moghaddam, University of Southern California, The Ming Hsieh Dept. of Electr. Eng., Los Angeles, CA, United States
 
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