H23N:
Science Utilization and Results from the NASA Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) Satellite Mission I

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Session ID#: 17256

Session Description:
NASA’s Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) mission was launched on January 31, 2015. The science data acquisition now includes just over two months of coincident active L-band and passive L-band measurements and continuing global L-band radiometry.  The data has been used to estimate water cycle and climate parameters such as surface soil moisture, vegetation characteristics, ocean surface salinity and ocean surface winds.  The model value-added data products also provide estimates of root-zone soil moisture and land surface water, energy and carbon fluxes.  This session includes presentations on the science uses of the data with focus on understanding the water cycle and its linkages to the energy and carbon cycles over land and ocean surfaces.
Primary Convener:  Dara Entekhabi, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Cambridge, MA, United States
Conveners:  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 and Jared Keith Entin, NASA Headquarters, Terrestrial Hydrology Program, Washington, United States
Chairs:  Dara Entekhabi, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Cambridge, MA, United States and Simon H Yueh, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Peggy E O'Neill, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States

Cross-Listed:
  • A - Atmospheric Sciences
Index Terms:

1833 Hydroclimatology [HYDROLOGY]
1843 Land/atmosphere interactions [HYDROLOGY]
1855 Remote sensing [HYDROLOGY]
1866 Soil moisture [HYDROLOGY]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

The Relationship of Temporal Variations in SMAP Vegetation Optical Depth to Plant Hydraulic Behavior (Invited) (145516)
Alexandra G Konings, Stanford University, Earth System Science, Stanford, CA, United States
Bridging the Global Precipitation and Soil Moisture Active Passive Missions: Variability of Microwave Surface Emissivity from In situ and Remote Sensing Perspectives (163788)
Yaoyao Zheng1, Pierre Kirstetter2, Yang Hong1 and Joe J Turk3, (1)University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Norman, OK, United States, (2)University of Oklahoma Norman, School of Meteorology and School of Civil Engineering and Environmental Science, Norman, United States, (3)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States
Fraction of the global water cycle observed by SMAP (179963)
Dara Entekhabi1, Kaighin A Mccoll2, Hamed Alemohammad1, Ruzbeh Akbar2, Alexandra G Konings3 and Simon H Yueh4, (1)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Cambridge, MA, United States, (2)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Cambridge, MA, United States, (3)Stanford University, Earth System Science, Stanford, CA, United States, (4)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States
SMAP SOIL MOISTURE DATA ASSIMILATION FOR THE CONTINENTAL UNITED STATES AND EASTERN AFRICA (164275)
Clay B Blankenship, USRA, Huntsville, AL, United States, Jonathan Case, ENSCO, Inc./NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL, United States, Bradley Zavodsky, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL, United States and William L Crosson, Universities Space Research Association at NASA/MSFC, Huntsville, AL, United States
Root Zone Soil Hydraulic Property Estimation by SMAP: An Unified Framework for Continental USA (136994)
Binayak Mohanty, Texas A&M University, Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering, College Station, United States
Multi-Resolution L-Band Microwave Observations for Growing Vegetation during SMAPVEX16-IA (195578)
Jasmeet Judge1, Pang-Wei Liu2, Subit Chakrabarti1, Roger D De Roo3, Andreas Colliander4, Sidharth Misra5, Simon H Yueh5, Ross Williamson5, Isaac Ramos5, Scott Tripp5 and Anthony W England6, (1)University of Florida, Center for Remote Sensing, Agricultural and Biological Engineering, Ft Walton Beach, FL, United States, (2)University of Florida, Center for Remote Sensing, Agricultural and Biological Engineering, Gainesville, FL, United States, (3)University of Michigan-AOSS, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (4)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, (5)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, (6)University of Michigan, College of Engineering and Computer Science, Dearborn, MI, United States
Monitoring the Phenology of Global Agroecosystems Using SMAP Multi-temporal Vegetation Optical Depth Retrievals (172425)
Maria Piles1, Dara Entekhabi2, Alexandra G Konings3, Ruzbeh Akbar2, Thomas Jagdhuber4, David Chaparro5 and Narendra N Das6, (1)Spanish National Research Council - CSIC, Institut de Ciències del Mar, Barcelona, Spain, (2)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Cambridge, MA, United States, (3)Stanford University, Earth System Science, Stanford, CA, United States, (4)Institute of Geography, University of Augsburg, Augsburg, Germany, (5)German Aerospace Center DLR Oberpfaffenhofen, Microwaves and Radar Institute, Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany, (6)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Water and Carbon Cycle Group, Pasadena, CA, United States
SMAP Impact Analysis of Early Adopter Research-Two Case studies on the scientific and societal benefits of SMAP data (199719)
Huey-Tzu Wu1,2, Vanessa M Escobar3, Susan Moran4 and Peggy E O'Neill1, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)Science Systems and Applications, Inc., Lanham, MD, United States, (3)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center/Science Systems and Applications, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (4)Southwest Watershed Research Center, Tucson, AZ, United States

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