Session 4 |
| | Hydrologic data assimilation techniques and methods (Room 6E) |
| | Organizer: Paul R. Houser, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD
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| 1:30 PM | 4.1 | Soil Moisture Estimation Using Surface Backscattering Coefficients Observed by the Tropical Rain Measurement Mission Precipitation Radar
Shinta Seto, Communications Research Laboratory, Tokyo, Japan; and A. Robock, L. Luo, T. Oki, T. Iguchi, and K. Musiake |
| 1:45 PM | 4.2 | Land surface data assimilation  
Paul R. Houser, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD |
| 2:00 PM | 4.3 | The European soil moisture assimilation project ELDAS (INVITED)
Bart Van den Hurk, KNMI, 3730 AE De Bilt, Netherlands |
| 2:30 PM | | Coffee Break with Formal Poster Viewing
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| 4:00 PM | 4.4 | Addressing key weaknesses of hydrologic models through the assimilation of remotely-sensed land surface variables (INVITED)
Wade T. Crow, USDA ARS, Beltsville, MD |
| 4:30 PM | 4.5 | Reanalysis Land Data Assimilation Using Ensemble Techniques (INVITED)
Susan C. Dunne, MIT, Cambridge, MA; and D. Entekhabi |
| 5:00 PM | 4.6 | On global soil moisture from satellite observations, land surface models, and ground data, and implications for land data assimilation
Rolf Reichle, GEST/University of Maryland, Greenbelt, MD; and R. D. Koster and J. Dong |
| 5:15 PM | 4.7 | Soil Moisture Initialization for Climate Prediction: Characterization of Model Observation Errors
Wenge Ni-Meister, Hunter College of the City University of New York, New York City, NY; and J. Walker and P. R. Houser |
| 5:30 PM | 4.8 | Retrieving Surface Soil Moisture from Simulated HYDROS L-band Radiometer and Radar Observations Using Kalman Filter Data Assimilation
Xiwu Zhan, UMBC-GEST/NASA-GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and P. Houser and J. Walker |