U12A:
Observing Earth's Water from Space: Scientific Opportunities and Societal Applications

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Session ID#: 12706

Session Description:
Water is the lifeblood that connects our global community. Knowing where and how much of this vital resource exists above, on and within our planet is paramount to advancing our ability to cope with water issues today and in the future. Observing Earth’s water from the vantage point of space provides the critical measurements to monitor Earth’s water in the atmosphere, land and oceans as a connected system. This session explores the scientific frontiers of using space-based instruments to address scientific challenges related to modeling Earth’s water budget, improving climate models, understanding and quantifying climate and human induced change and improving the prediction of extremes and hazards that directly impact our society.  Topics of interest span the disciplines of hydrology, atmospheric sciences, ocean sciences, Earth and planetary sciences, biogeosciences, global environmental change, remote sensing, natural hazards, Earth and space science informatics and social sciences and policy.
Primary Convener:  Dalia Kirschbaum, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Conveners:  Deborah G Vane, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, Susan C van den Heever, Colorado State University, Department of Atmospheric Science, Fort Collins, United States and Alexis Berne, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne, Environmental Remote Sensing Laboratory, Lausanne, Switzerland
Chairs:  Dalia Kirschbaum, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Alexis Berne, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne, Environmental Remote Sensing Laboratory, Lausanne, Switzerland
OSPA Liaison:  Dalia Kirschbaum, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Index Terms:

1836 Hydrological cycles and budgets [HYDROLOGY]
1855 Remote sensing [HYDROLOGY]
1895 Instruments and techniques: monitoring [HYDROLOGY]
3322 Land/atmosphere interactions [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Satellite-based Precipitation Measurements For Science and Society (Invited) (129029)
Gail Skofronick Jackson, NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC, United States and George John Huffman, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States
Global Terrestrial Water Cycle Mapping and Science Results from the NASA Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) Satellite Mission (Invited) (182829)
Dara Entekhabi, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Cambridge, MA, United States, Simon H Yueh, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, Peggy E O'Neill, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Jared Keith Entin, NASA Headquarters, Terrestrial Hydrology Program, Washington, United States and Tung-Han You, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
Agricultural Applications for Remotely Sensed Evapotranspiration Data in Monitoring Water Use, Water Quality, and Water Security (Invited) (174952)
Martha Anderson1, Christopher Hain2, Feng Gao3, Yun Yang4, Liang Sun3, Wayne Dulaney3, Amirreza Sharifi5, Thomas R Holmes6 and William P Kustas7, (1)USDA ARS Hydrology and Remote Sensing Lab, Beltsvillle, United States, (2)NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL, United States, (3)USDA ARS HRSL, Beltsvillle, MD, United States, (4)U. S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Hydrology and Remote Sensing Laboratory, Beltsville, MD, United States, (5)University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States, (6)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, (7)USDA ARS, Hydrology and Remote Sensing Lab, Beltsvillle, MD, United States
Remote Sensing of Groundwater with GRACE and GRACE Follow On (Invited) (122232)
Matthew Rodell, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Hydrological Sciences Laboratory, Greenbelt, MD, United States, James S. Famiglietti, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, John T Reager II, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, David N Wiese, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, Hiroko K Kato-Beaudoing, NASA GSFC HSL (ESSIC University of Maryland), Greenbelt, MD, United States and Bailing Li, University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States
Seasonal To Interannual Variations of Aquarius Satellite Sea Surface Salinity (SSS) Measurements, Precipitation and Evaporation in the Tropical Pacific. (Invited) (184087)
Gary S E Lagerloef and Hsun-Ying Kao, Earth and Space Research, Seattle, WA, United States
Observing terrestrial water storage and land-atmosphere dynamics from space: Implications for forecasting and climate projections (Invited) (129456)
Sonia I Seneviratne1, Vincent Humphrey2, Nadine Nicolai-Shaw2, Lukas Gudmundsson1, Benoit Guillod2, Martin Hirschi2, Dominik Michel2, Rene Orth2 and Jakob Zscheischler2, (1)Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science, Department of Environmental Systems Science, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, (2)ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

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