92nd American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting (January 22-26, 2012)

Joint Session 6: Advances in Methods and Applications of Land Data Assimilation Systems I


Cochairs:  Rolf H. Reichle, NASA/GSFC; Susan C. Steele-Dunne, TU Delft; Michael Ek, NOAA/NWS/NCEP and Youlong Xia, NOAA/NWS/NCEP Environmental Modeling Center
Papers:
 
An EnKF Dual Assimilation of Thermal-Infrared and Microwave Satellite Observations of Soil Moisture Into the Noah Land Surface Model [INVITED]
Chris Hain, NOAA/NESDIS, Camp Springs, MD; and W. T. Crow, M. C. Anderson, and J. Mecikalski

 
The Impact of Satellite Rainfall Error Characterization on the Estimation of Soil Moisture Fields in a Land Data Assimilation System
Viviana Maggioni, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT; and R. H. Reichle and E. Anagnostou

 
Combining the Assimilation of Near-Surface Soil Moisture From Passive and Active Microwave Sensors
Clara Draper, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and R. H. Reichle, G. J. M. De Lannoy, Q. Liu, R. de Jeu, and W. Wagner