H53E:
Remote Sensing Applications for Water Resources Management, Including Droughts, Floods, and Associated Water Cycle Extremes I


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Session ID#: 62473

Session Description:
Water resources management can benefit from applications of remote sensing and hydrologic models. These tools can be especially valuable during extreme events and in data-sparse regions. Observational platforms include the GPM, SMAP, Terra, Aqua, Landsat, GRACE, and Sentinel satellites, and other satellite and airborne platforms. They can support the operational water resources management 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 and forecasting; (3) evapotranspiration, soil moisture, groundwater, and agricultural water management; (4) water quality and (5) global water sustainability.
Primary Convener:  John D Bolten, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States
Conveners:  Forrest S Melton, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, United States, Christine M Lee, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States and Sushel Unninayar, NASA/GSFC-HSL & Morgan State University-DRED, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Primary Liaison:  John D Bolten, Hydrological Sciences Laboratory, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt MD, United States
Chairs:  John D Bolten, Hydrological Sciences Laboratory, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt MD, United States, Christine M Lee, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, Sabrina Delgado Arias, Science Systems and Applications, Inc. - NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Michael F Jasinski, NASA Goddard Space Flight Ctr, Greenbelt, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Forrest S Melton, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, United States
Index Terms:

1817 Extreme events [HYDROLOGY]
1855 Remote sensing [HYDROLOGY]
1880 Water management [HYDROLOGY]
1895 Instruments and techniques: monitoring [HYDROLOGY]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Earth Science Applications & ICESat-2 (Invited) (433001)
Lawrence Friedl, NASA Headquarters, Earth Science Division, Washington, DC, United States
ICESat-2 and Applied Sciences: An Overview from NASA Headquarters (Invited) (412634)
Thomas Paul Wagner, NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC, United States
Accessing the Accuracy of CHIRPS-GEFS Rainfall in Bangladesh (455054)
Ashutosh S Limaye1, Walter Lee Ellenburg1, Carlo Montes2, Begum Rabeya Rushi3, Vikalp Mishra4, Emily Caitlin Adams5, Eric Ross Anderson6, Emil A Cherrington7, Africa Ixmucane Flores Anderson8, Kel Markert9, Amanda Markert3 and Daniel Irwin10, (1)NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL, United States, (2)International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT), Texcoco, Mexico, (3)University of Alabama in Huntsville, Earth System Science Center, Huntsville, AL, United States, (4)University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL, United States, (5)NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, United States, (6)University of Alabama in Huntsville, NASA-SERVIR, Huntsville, AL, United States, (7)University of Alabama in Huntsville, Earth System Science Center, Huntsville, United States, (8)Regional Visualization and Monitoring System (SERVIR), Huntsville, AL, United States, (9)Researcher, Huntsville, United States, (10)NASA Marshall Space Flght Ctr, Huntsville, AL, United States
Historical and real-time snow product suite for the Indus River basin (449589)
Karl Rittger, University of California Santa Barbara, Earth Research Institute, Santa Barbara, CA, United States, Edward Bair, Leidos, Inc., Reston, United States, William P. Doan, US Army Corps of Engineers, Northwestern Division, Portland, OR, United States and Mary J. Brodzik, University of Colorado Boulder, CIRES, National Snow and Ice Data Center, Boulder, United States
Application of Airborne SAR to Extreme Flooding: A Case Study of the Southeast Texas Rivers During Hurricane Harvey Emergency Response (416364)
Cathleen E Jones1, Bruce D Chapman2, Yunling Lou2 and Gordon L Wells3, (1)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (2)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, (3)University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States
Satellite-based Drought Reporting on the Navajo Nation: Utilizing Ground Measurements and NASA Earth Observations to Inform Management Decisions (436729)
Amber Jean Kuss McCullum1,2, Rachel Kayla Green2,3, Carlee McClellan4, Britta Daudert5 and Justin L Huntington6, (1)BAERI/NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, United States, (2)NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, United States, (3)Bay Area Environmental Research Institute, Moffett Field, CA, United States, (4)Navajo Nation Department of Water Resources, Water Management Branch, Fort Defiance, AZ, United States, (5)Desert Research Institute, Reno, NV, United States, (6)Desert Research Institute, Division of Hydrologic Sciences, Reno, United States
Improved seasonal groundwater storage forecasting in the U.S. through GRACE data assimilation (447612)
Augusto Getirana1, Matthew Rodell2, Ben M Zaitchik3, Ryan Zamora3, Hiroko K Kato-Beaudoing4, Kristi R Arsenault5 and Sujay V Kumar1, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)NASA GSFC HSL, Greenbelt, United States, (3)Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States, (4)SAIC, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (5)SAIC, Greenbelt, United States
Assessing regional drought impacts on vegetation and evapotranspiration: a case study in Guanacaste, Costa Rica (351317)
Savannah Cooley1, Christopher A Williams2, Joshua Fisher3, Gregory Hillard Halverson3 and Johan Perret4, (1)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (2)Clark University, Worcester, United States, (3)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, (4)EARTH University, Soil Management and Precision Agriculture, Liberia, Costa Rica

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