Session 5A |
| | Advances in Data Assimilation Techniques and Their Applications to Land Surface State and Parameter Estimation in Hydrology—I |
| | Chair: Susan C. Steele-Dunne, TU Delft, Delft Netherlands
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| 8:30 AM | 5A.1 | (Invited Speaker) Assimilation of GRACE terrestrial water storage data into a land surface model
Rolf H. Reichle, NASA, Greenbelt, MD; and B. F. Zaitchik and M. Rodell |
| 9:00 AM | 5A.2 | The potential of distributed GRACE measurements to estimate spatially variable terrestrial water storage changes in the Colorado River basin
Peter A. Troch, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; and S. Hasan, R. Uijlenhoet, R. Hurkmans, and M. Durcik |
| 9:15 AM | 5A.3 | Recent progress and upcoming projects with the Canadian Land Data Assimilation System
Stéphane Bélair, Environment Canada, Dorval, QC, Canada; and B. Bilodeau, M. Carrera, N. Bernier, C. Derksen, D. Chan, and M. Ishizawa |
| 9:30 AM | 5A.4 | Soil moisture assimilation with microwave brightness temperatures in Canadian prediction systems
Marco Carrera, Environment Canada, Dorval, QC, Canada; and S. Belair and B. Bilodeau |
| 9:45 AM | 5A.5 | Synthetic experiments to estimate hillslope-scale soil moisture through assimilation of anticipated remotely sensed microwave products 
Alejandro N. Flores, MIT, Cambridge, MA; and R. L. Bras and D. Entekhabi |