Session: Land Data Assimilation Systems: Methods and Applications (91st American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting)

Tuesday, 25 January 2011: 9:45 AM-11:00 AM

Washington State Convention Center

Hosts: (Joint between the 25th Conference on Hydrology; and the 15th Symposium on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS) )

Cochairs:

Michael B. Ek, NOAA/NWS/NCEP, Camp Springs, MD; Rolf H. Reichle, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; Susan C. Steele-Dunne, TU Delft, Water Resources Management, Delft and Youlong Xia, NOAA/NWS/NCEP, Camp Springs, MD

Papers:

Evaluation of the impacts of assimilating multi-sensor snow observations on land surface processes

Sujay V. Kumar, SAIC, Greenbelt, MD; and R. H. Reichle, C. D. Peters-Lidard, M. Shaw, D. K. Hall, J. L. Foster, G. A. Riggs, and J. B. Eylander

Paper 43 has been moved. New paper number is J6.4A.

43A

(Formerly 7.4) High Spatial Resolution Observation of Rainfall from Space

James A. Weinman, Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA; and S. Mori, G. Levy, and F. S. Marzano

Field-Scale Soil Moisture Assimilation: State, Parameter or Bias Estimation?

Gabriëlle J.M. De Lannoy, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and V. Pauwels, R. H. Reichle, W. P. Kustas, T. Gish, P. R. Houser, A. Russ, and N. Verhoest

Investigating the impact of improved rainfall model error characterization on the assimilation of synthetic soil moisture fields in a land data assimilation system

Viviana Maggioni, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT; and R. H. Reichle and E. N. Anagnostou

Handout (1022.5 kB)

Impacts of the new satellite derived land products on mesoscale precipitation processes

Vince C. K. Wong, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/EMC, Camp Springs, MD; and M. B. Ek

Improving simulated soil moisture states through AMSR-E data assimilation

Bias correction based on regime-dependent Cumulative Distribution Functions for soil moisture data assimilation in a Land Surface Model

Clay B. Blankenship, USRA, Huntsville, AL; and W. L. Crosson

Manuscript (443.9 kB)

Handout (334.2 kB)

Online vegetation parameter estimation using passive microwave observations for soil moisture estimation

Jean A. Fitzmaurice, USDA, Beltsville, MD; and W. T. Crow

Comparison analysis of water and energy fluxes and application of model products for North-American Land Data Assimilation System phase 2

Youlong Xia, NOAA/NWS/NCEP, Camp Springs, MD; and K. E. Mitchell, M. B. Ek, J. Sheffield, E. F. Wood, B. Cosgrove, L. Luo, C. Alonge, H. Wei, J. Meng, B. Livneh, D. P. Lettenmaier, V. Koren, Q. Duan, K. C. Mo, and Y. Fan

Evaluation and analysis of model-simulated soil temperature in the North American Land Data Assimilation System phase 2

Youlong Xia, NOAA/NWS/NCEP, Camp Springs, MD; and J. Sheffield, M. B. Ek, H. Wei, E. F. Wood, S. Feng, L. Luo, J. Meng, and K. Mitchell

Surface Water and Energy Budgets for the Mississippi River Basin In Three NCEP Analyses

Rongqian Yang, NOAA/NWS/NCEP, Camp Springs, MD; and M. Ek, J. Meng, and K. Mitchell

Distributed streamflow predictions based on precipitation data from sparse ground networks and the North American Land Data Assimilation System in Northwest Mexico

Agustin Robles-Morua, Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI; and E. R. Vivoni and A. S. Mayer

A land data assimilation system using MODIS-derived land data and its application to WRF prediction

Yoon-Jin Lim, Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information, Daejeon, Korea, Republic of (South); and K. Y. Byun, T. Y. Lee, J. Kim, and M. S. Joh

Handout (1.9 MB)

Calibration of Three Sophisticated Operational Hydrological Forecast Models Using Land-Data Assimilation: Comparison of Results Over Selected Basins in Romania

John N. McHenry, Baron Advanced Meteorological Systems, LLC, Raleigh, NC; and D. J. Gochis, C. J. Coats Jr., J. Vukovich, and T. K. Burnet

NASA Water Resources Program and LDAS for Improved Water Management

David L. Toll, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and B. Doorn

Paper 57 has been moved. New paper number is J21.4A.

Snow surface temperature update process in Noah land surface model: a modified approach

Rebeka Sultana, University of California, Irvine, CA; and K. L. Hsu, J. Li, and S. Sorooshian

Change in land cover in ecological zones of Mongolia

Battumur Tserenchunt Jr., Dryland Sustainability Institute of Mongolia, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia

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