H44G:
Remote Sensing and Modeling of the Terrestrial Water Cycle I


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Session ID#: 62082

Session Description:
Hydrologic models and remote sensing are essential tools for studying the changing nature of the terrestrial water cycle and its various components. Advances in the areas of remote sensing and modeling allowed the integration of these two approaches and the use of multiple sensors and variables simultaneously to better understand the spatial and temporal dynamics of the water cycle and the available water resources at various scales. Some of the major missions proven valuable for hydrologic modeling include SMOS, AMSR-E/AMSR2 and SMAP for soil moisture; TRMM and GPM for precipitation; TOPEX and SWOT (planned) for water level; AIRS/AMSU for atmospheric water vapor and air temperature profiles; GRACE for water storage changes and MODIS for vegetation and surface temperature. We invite multi-scale, multi-variable and multi-sensor studies that use remote sensing techniques and modeling approaches to assess the spatiotemporal variability in water resources and study the terrestrial water cycle.
Primary Convener:  Iliana E Mladenova, NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Conveners:  Venkataraman Lakshmi, University of Virginia, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Charlottesville, VA, United States and Sayed M. Bateni, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Water Resources Research Center, Honolulu, United States
Primary Liaison:  Iliana E Mladenova, NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Chairs:  Iliana E Mladenova, USDA/ARS BARC-W, Bldg 007, Beltsville, MD, United States, Venkataraman Lakshmi, University of Virginia, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Charlottesville, VA, United States and Sayed M. Bateni, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Water Resources Research Center, Honolulu, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Iliana E Mladenova, USDA/ARS BARC-W, Bldg 007, Beltsville, MD, United States
Index Terms:

1655 Water cycles [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1816 Estimation and forecasting [HYDROLOGY]
1847 Modeling [HYDROLOGY]
1855 Remote sensing [HYDROLOGY]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

L-Band Radiometry for Assessing Water Cycle: Recent Advances and Way Forward (384911)
Yann H Kerr1, Rajat Bindlish2, Simon H Yueh3, Dara Entekhabi4, Nemesio Rodriguez Fernandez5, Tong Lee3, Jean-Pierre Wigneron6, Gary S E Lagerloef7, Jacqueline Boutin8, Maria Jose Escorihuela9 and Eric Anterrieu5, (1)CNES French National Center for Space Studies, Toulouse Cedex 09, France, (2)NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, United States, (3)JPL, Pasadena, United States, (4)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Cambridge, MA, United States, (5)Centre d'Etudes Spatiales de la Biosphere, Toulouse Cedex 9, France, (6)INRAE Bordeaux-Aquitaine, Villenave d'Ornon, France, (7)Earth & Space Research, Seattle, WA, United States, (8)CNRS, LOCEAN/Sorbonne Université, Paris, France, (9)Isardsat, Barcelona, Spain
Downscaling SMAP radiometer soil moisture using land surface temperature and vegetation over CONUS (355809)
Bin Fang, University of South Carolina Columbia, Columbia, SC, United States, Venkat Lakshmi, Professor, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, United States, Rajat Bindlish, NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, United States and Thomas J Jackson, USDA ARS, Pendleton, OR, United States
Estimating vegetation water content and soil surface roughness using physical models of L-band radar scattering for soil moisture retrieval (351971)
Seungbum Kim, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, Huanting Huang, Univ. Michigan, Ann Arbor, United States, Tien-Hao Liao, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States and Andreas Colliander, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States
Remote Sensing of the Terrestrial Water Cycle with the NASA CYGNSS SmallSat Constellation (Invited) (374101)
Christopher S Ruf, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Climate and Space, Ann Arbor, MI, United States and April Marie Warnock, SRI International, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
Evaluating the sensitivity of surface soil moisture dynamics to soil profile layering schemes (421863)
Peter J Shellito1, Joseph A Santanello Jr2, Sujay V Kumar3, Patricia Lawston Parker1 and Michael H Cosh4, (1)University of Maryland, Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, College Park, MD, United States, (2)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Code 617, Hydrological Sciences Laboratory, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (3)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Hydrological Sciences Laboratory, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (4)U.S. Department of Agriculture ARS, Hydrology and Remote Sensing Laboratory, Beltsville, United States
Global groundwater storage estimates through assimilation of GRACE data into a land surface model (432753)
Bailing Li1, Matthew Rodell2, Sujay V Kumar3, Hiroko K Kato-Beaudoing4, Augusto Getirana3, Benjamin F Zaitchik5, Luis Goncalves6, Camila Cossetin7, Soumendra Nath Bhanja, PhD8, Abhijit Mukherjee9, Siyuan Tian10, Natthachet Tangdamrongsub11, Di Long12, Jamiat Nanteza, Jejung Lee14, Frederick S Policelli15, Goni Ibrahim16, Daira Djoret17, Mohammed D Bila17, Gabrielle J.M. De Lannoy18, David M Mocko19, Susan C Steele-Dunne20, Himanshu Save21 and Srinivas V Bettadpur21, (1)University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States, (2)NASA GSFC HSL, Greenbelt, United States, (3)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (4)SAIC, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (5)Johns Hopkins University, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Baltimore, MD, United States, (6)CPTEC/INPE, Cachoeira Paulista, Brazil, (7)Climatempo, São José dos Campos, São Paulo, Brazil, (8)Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Computational Sciences and Engineering Division, Oak Ridge, TN, United States, (9)Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, Geology and Geophysics, Kharagpur, India, (10)Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia, (11)University of Maryland College Park, College Park, United States, (12)Tsinghua University, Department of Hydraulic Engineering, Beijing, China, (13)University of Missouri - Kansas City, Kansas City, United States, (14)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Hydrological Sciences Laboratory, Greenbelt, United States, (15)University of Maiduguri, Maiduguri, Nigeria, (16)Lake Chad Basin Commission, N'Djamena, Chad, (17)KU Leuven, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Leuven, Belgium, (18)SAIC, Greenbelt, United States, (19)Technische Universiteit Delft, Department of Geoscience and Remote Sensing, Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences, Delft, Netherlands, (20)The University of Texas at Austin, Center for Space Research, Austin, TX, United States
Satellite Retrievals and Analysis of the Global Near-Surface Atmospheric Vapor Pressure Deficit using AMSR-E and AMSR2 (395285)
Jinyang Du1, John S Kimball2, Rolf H Reichle3, Lucas A Jones1, Jennifer D Watts1,4 and Youngwook Kim5, (1)University of Montana, Numerical Terradynamic Simulation Group, W.A. Franke College of Forestry & Conservation, Missoula, MT, United States, (2)University of Montana, Numerical Terradynamic Simulation Group, Missoula, United States, (3)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, (4)Woods Hole Research Center, Falmouth, MA, United States, (5)Univ Montana, NTSG, Missoula, MT, United States
Routine Food and Water Security Monitoring using NASA Earth Observations (Invited) (440466)
Amy McNally1,2, Laura Harrison3, Md Shahriar Pervez4, Kristi R Arsenault5, Abheera Hazra6, Iliana E Mladenova1,7 and Christa D Peters-Lidard8, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, College Park, MD, United States, (3)University of California Santa Barbara, Climate Hazards Center, Geography Department, Santa Barbara, CA, United States, (4)ASRC Federal Data Solutions, Contractor to USGS EROS, Beltsville, United States, (5)SAIC, Greenbelt, United States, (6)Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, HSL, College PARK, MD, United States, (7)NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (8)NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, United States

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