Description:

A developing GEWEX Regional Hydroclimate Project, Humans and Hydroclimate in the United States (H₂US), is bringing the observational, modeling, and social science communities together to advance the state of the science and our predictive capabilities to better characterize the water, energy, and carbon cycles. Submissions are invited that explore a convergent approach to address these challenges, through co-design, and inter- and transdisciplinary approaches to water cycle science for a better understanding and quantification of water availability and sustainability now and in the future. Especially relevant are papers that explore ways to evaluate, improve and integrate existing surface observational networks across regional to continental scales, in the context of terrestrial-based and spaceborne remote sensing, to support of Earth system modeling of the water-cycle, and regional, national and global operational weather and hydroclimate monitoring and modelling efforts. The session discussion can contribute to a ‘Digital Earth’ representation of the water cycle over the US.