89th American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting

Session 5A: Advances in Data Assimilation Techniques and Their Applications to Land Surface State and Parameter Estimation in Hydrology—I

Wednesday, 14 January 2009: 8:30 AM-10:00 AM
Room 127B (Phoenix Convention Center)
Chair:  Susan C. Steele-Dunne, TU Delft
Papers:
  8:30 AM
(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
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
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
Soil moisture assimilation with microwave brightness temperatures in Canadian prediction systems
Marco Carrera, Environment Canada, Dorval, QC, Canada; and S. Belair and B. Bilodeau