H41F:
Science and Applications Results Based on NASA Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) Satellite Mission Products and Validation Experiments I


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Session ID#: 62304

Session Description:
NASA’s Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) mission has completed its three-year prime mission and is now entering extended-mission phase.  So far, measurements and geophysical products covering three annual cycles are available. The global L-band radiometry from SMAP is used in diverse scientific investigations including water, energy and carbon cycle research, terrestrial ecology, cryosphere and ocean science. The land applications encompass topics related to the role of soil moisture control on the evaporation, vegetation gross primary productivity, floods and droughts monitoring, climate modeling and weather prediction. The ocean and cryosphere applications include detecting ocean high-winds during tropical storms, tracking fresh-water outflow into coastal oceans, mapping sea-ice cover and shallow ice thickness and detecting firn aquifers in land ice masses. This session highlights the science uses of data from SMAP products and validation experiments.
Primary Convener:  Simon H Yueh, JPL, Pasadena, United States
Conveners:  Andreas Colliander, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, Peggy E O'Neill, NASA Goddard SFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Simon H Yueh, JPL, Pasadena, United States
Primary Liaison:  Simon H Yueh, JPL, Pasadena, United States
Chairs:  Andreas Colliander, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States and Simon H Yueh, JPL, Pasadena, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Peggy E O'Neill, NASA Goddard SFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States

Cross-Listed:
  • A - Atmospheric Sciences
  • B - Biogeosciences
  • C - Cryosphere
  • GC - Global Environmental Change
Index Terms:

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

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Partitioning evapotranspiration over the continental United States using SMAP observations and weather station data (Invited) (441539)
Guido Salvucci, Boston University, Earth and Environment, Boston, MA, United States, Angela Jean Rigden, Boston University, Earth and Environment, Boston, United States, Dara Entekhabi, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Cambridge, MA, United States and Dan Gianotti, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Cambridge, MA, United States
Evaluation of Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) soil and vegetation data products for predicting changes in vegetation phonology (418265)
Bonan Li, University of Arkansas, Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering, Fayetteville, United States and Stephen P Good, Oregon State University, Department of Biological & Ecological Engineering, Corvallis, OR, United States
Soil moisture drydowns over space, time and depth: a combination of remote sensing and land surface model (410753)
Vinit Sehgal, Texas A&M University College Station, Water Management and Hydrological Science, College Station, TX, United States and Binayak Mohanty, Texas A&M University, Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering, College Station, United States
Spatial Correlation Structures in SMAP Near-Surface Soil Moisture: Application to the Reconstruction of Historical Soil Moisture Datasets (354799)
Randal D Koster, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Global Modeling and Assimilation Office, Greenbelt, United States, Rolf H Reichle, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, Sarith P P Mahanama, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Qing Liu, NASA GSFC/SSAI Inc., Greenbelt, United States
Science Results from the NASA Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) Satellite Prime-Phase Mission and Extended-Phase Plans (350478)
Dara Entekhabi, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Cambridge, MA, United States, Simon H Yueh, JPL, Pasadena, United States, Peggy E O'Neill, NASA Goddard SFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Jared Keith Entin, NASA HQ - SMD, Washington, United States and Tung-Han You, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
Use of satellite soil moisture to diagnose climate model representations of European soil moisture - air temperature coupling strength (374985)
Jianzhi Dong, USDA Beltsville Agricultural Research Center, Beltsville, MD, United States and Wade T Crow, USDA ARS, Hydrology and Remote Sensing Lab, Beltsville, MD, United States
Assessing Downscaled High Resolution SMAP Soil Moisture Data Products for Potential Applications in the National Water Model (414061)
Xiwu Zhan, NOAA College Park, College Park, MD, United States, Li Fang, NOAA-NESDIS, College Park, MD, United States, Jifu Yin, NOAA College Park, NESDIS-STAR/University of Maryland CICS, College Park, MD, United States, Jicheng Liu, NOAA-NESDIS-STAR, College Park, United States, Nai-Yu Wang, NOAA NESDIS, Space Weather Observations (SWO), Lanham, United States and Mitchell Schull, University of Maryland, Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, College Park, MD, United States
A Physically Constrained Inversion for Super-resolved Passive Microwave Retrieval of Soil Moisture and Vegetation Water Content in L-band (345831)
Ardeshir Ebtehaj, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Civil, Environmental, and Geo-Engineering, Minneapolis, United States and Rafael L Bras, Georgia Institute of Technology, School of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Atlanta, United States

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