H42G:
Science and Applications Results Based on NASA Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) Satellite Mission Products and Validation Experiments II


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Session ID#: 62310

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:  Dara Entekhabi, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Cambridge, MA, 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 Liaisons:  Dara Entekhabi, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Cambridge, MA, United States and Simon H Yueh, JPL, Pasadena, United States
Chairs:  Dara Entekhabi, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Cambridge, MA, United States and Andreas Colliander, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, 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:

Global drought monitoring using SMAP soil moisture and effective soil water hydraulic parameters (Invited) (450317)
Binayak Mohanty, Texas A&M University, Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering, College Station, United States, Vinit Sehgal, Louisiana State University, School of Plant, Environmental and Soil Sciences, Baton Rouge, LA, United States and Nandita Gaur, Texas A&M University, College Station, United States
Hydrologic length scale of L-band radiometric soil moisture retrievals (465914)
Dan Gianotti, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Cambridge, MA, United States, Guido Salvucci, Boston University, Earth and Environment, Boston, MA, United States, Kaighin A Mccoll, Harvard University, Earth and Planetary Sciences and School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Cambridge, MA, United States, Dara Entekhabi, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Cambridge, MA, United States and Ruzbeh Akbar, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Cambridge, United States
Water Supply Constraint on Grassland Productivity at Different Seasonal Timing (413942)
Geruo A, Department of Earth System Science, University of California, Irvine, United States, Meng Zhao, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States, Isabella Velicogna, UCI, Irvine, United States, Andreas Colliander, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States and John S Kimball, University of Montana, Numerical Terradynamic Simulation Group, Missoula, United States
Utilizing SMAP soil moisture products to assess information flow in the NOAH-MP land surface model (353174)
Wade T Crow, USDA ARS, Hydrology and Remote Sensing Lab, Beltsville, MD, United States and Fan Chen, U. S. Dept. of Agriculture, Beltsville, United States
The Value of SMAP for Improving the USDA FAS Soil Moisture Information: Early Adopters Perspective (351764)
Iliana E Mladenova1, John D Bolten2, Nazmus Sazib1, Wade T Crow3 and Curt A Reynolds4, (1)NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)Hydrological Sciences Laboratory, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt MD, United States, (3)USDA ARS, Hydrology and Remote Sensing Lab, Beltsville, MD, United States, (4)USDA FAS, Washington, DC, United States
Comparing output from L-band Satellites and Crop Models in the US Corn Belt (414205)
Kaitlin Togliatti1, Brian K Hornbuckle1, Andrew Suyker2 and Timothy J Arkebauer3, (1)Iowa State University, Ames, IA, United States, (2)University of Nebraska Lincoln, Lincoln, United States, (3)Univ Nebraska Lincoln, Lincoln, NE, United States
Impact of SMAP Soil Moisture Assimilation on Numerical Weather Forecasts over the Contiguous United States and and East Africa (416694)
Clay B Blankenship, Universities Space Research Association, Huntsville, AL, United States, Jonathan Case, ENSCO, Inc./NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL, United States and Christopher Hain, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Earth Science Office, Huntsville, United States
Using SMAP to study land-ocean fluxes in the Gulf of Mexico (423600)
John T Reager II, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, Severine Fournier, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States, Jorge Vazquez, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States and Brian Dzwonkowski, University of South Alabama / Dauphin Island Sea Lab, Dauphin Island, United States

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