H53N:
Remote Sensing Applications for Water Resources Management, Including Irrigation, Droughts, Floods, and Associated Water Cycle Extremes IV

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Session ID#: 17226

Session Description:
Water resources management can benefit from remote sensing and hydrologic models. These tools can be especially valuable during extreme events and in data-sparse regions. Observational assets include the GPM, SMAP, Terra, Aqua, Landsat, GRACE, and Sentinel satellites, and other satellite and airborne platforms. They can support the operational water resources community in responding to climate change, increases in climate variability and the frequency of extreme events.  This session will highlight advances in the use of satellite, airborne and ground-based sensor networks to: measure the quantity/quality of hydrologic resources in the U.S. and internationally; provide information to water managers to improve water resources management; and support risk-based decision making. Topics of interest include (1) extreme events such as floods and droughts; (2) water supply and snow water resource monitoring; (3) evapotranspiration, soil moisture, ground water, and agricultural water management; and (4) water quality.
Primary Convener:  Sushel Unninayar, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, HSL, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Conveners:  Richard G Lawford, Morgan State University, Baltimore, MD, United States, Venkataraman Lakshmi, University of Virginia, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Charlottesville, United States and Forrest S Melton, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, United States
Chairs:  Christine M Lee, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Water and Ecosystems, Pasadena, CA, United States and Ashutosh S Limaye, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Christine M Lee, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Water and Ecosystems, Pasadena, CA, United States

Cross-Listed:
  • A - Atmospheric Sciences
  • GC - Global Environmental Change
  • SI - Societal Impacts and Policy Sciences
Index Terms:

1655 Water cycles [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1855 Remote sensing [HYDROLOGY]
3305 Climate change and variability [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
4313 Extreme events [NATURAL HAZARDS]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Satellite-Based Estimation of Water Discharge and Runoff in the Magdalena River, Northern Andes of Colombia (120344)
Rogger Escobar Correa, Universidad EAFIT, Medellin, Colombia, Prof. Albert Kettner, University of Colorado at Boulder, CSDMS/INSTAAR, Boulder, CO, United States, G Robert Brakenridge, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States and Juan Darío Restrepo Sr, Universidad EAFIT, Earth Sciences, Medellin, Colombia
Variations in lake and reservoir storage associated with Middle East droughts (Invited) (134845)
Dr. Miriam E Marlier, PhD1, Jongyoun Kim2, Ankush Khandelwal3, Anuj Karpatne3, Vipin Kumar4, Tian Zhou5 and Dennis P Lettenmaier6, (1)University of California Los Angeles, Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (2)University of California Los Angeles, Department of Geography, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (3)University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN, United States, (4)University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Department of Computer Science/Engineering, Minneapolis, United States, (5)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Atmospheric Sciences and Global Change Division, Richland, WA, United States, (6)University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States
Reservoir Storage Monitoring from Satellite Imageries and Digital Elevation Models in South Asia (143665)
Shuai Zhang and Huilin Gao, Texas A&M University, Zachry Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, College Station, United States
Keeping an Eye on Harmful Algal Blooms in Lake Erie: Identifying Color-Producing Agents Using Derivative Spectroscopy of MODIS images (144949)
Dulcinea Avouris, Kent State University, Department of Geology, Kent, OH, United States and Joseph D. Ortiz, Kent State University Kent Campus, Geology, Kent, OH, United States
Using Satellite Data to Build Climate Resilience: A Novel East Africa Drought Monitor (188183)
Kimberly Slinski1, Terri S Hogue2 and John E McCray2, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Hydrological Sciences Laboratory, Greenbelt, United States, (2)Colorado School of Mines, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Golden, CO, United States
Developing sustainable management scenarios for Saharan and Arabian aquifer systems using GRACE data (161642)
Mohamed Ahmed, Suez Canal University, Faculty of Science, Geology Department, Ismailia, Egypt, Mohamed Sultan, Western Michigan University, Department of Geological and Environmental Sciences, Kalamazoo, MI, United States and Himanshu Save, The University of Texas at Austin, Center for Space Research, Austin, TX, United States
Retrieval Accuracy Assessment with Gap Detection for Case 2 Waters Chla Algorithms (171649)
Salem Ibrahim Salem1, Hiroto Higa2, Hyungjun Kim3, Kazuo Oki1 and Taikan Oki1, (1)University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Japan, (2)Yokohama National University, Institute of Urban Innovation, Yokohama, Japan, (3)The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

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