Session: Advances in Land Data Assimilation Posters (93rd American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting)

Wednesday, 9 January 2013: 2:30 PM-4:00 PM

Exhibit Hall 3 (Austin Convention Center)

Hosts: (Joint between the 27th Conference on Hydrology; and the 17th Conference on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS) )

Chair:

Michael B. Ek, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/EMC, College Park, MD

Papers:

505

Soil Moisture Assimilation of Space-Based L-Band Passive Data for SMOS and SMAP cal-val Field Campaigns over Canada

Stephane Belair, EC, Dorval, QC, Canada; and M. Carrera, S. Dyck, B. Bilodeau, N. Gauthier, and M. Abrahamowicz

506

The Effect of Revised Soil and Vegetation Properties on Simulated GEOS-5 Land Surface Hydrology

Gabriëlle J.M. De Lannoy, KULeuven, Greenbelt, MD; and R. H. Reichle, R. D. Koster, and S. Mahanama

507

A study of biomass allocation schemes in A Land Surface Model

Qiudan Dai, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China; and Y. Wang

508

Globally estimating root mean square errors in remotely sensed soil moisture

Clara Draper, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and R. H. Reichle, R. de Jeu, V. Naeimi, R. Parinussa, and W. Wagner

509

Assimilation of Microwave Brightness Temperature in a Land Data Assimilation System with Multi-Observation Operators

Zhenghui Xie, LASG, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China; and B. Jia, X. Tian, J. Liu, and C. Shi

Handout (1.0 MB)

510

Dual Assimilation of Microwave and Thermal-Infrared Satellite Observations of Soil Moisture into NLDAS for Improved Drought Monitoring

Christopher Hain, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL; and M. C. Anderson, W. T. Crow, X. Zhan, and J. Mecikalski

511

Assimilation of Satellite Soil Moisture Data Products in the NCEP Global Forecast System

Weizhong Zheng, NOAA/NWS/NCEP, College Park, MD; and X. Zhan, M. Ek, J. Liu, J. Meng, J. Dong, and H. Wei

512

Assimilating Remotely Sensed Satellite Derived Data with Land Surface Model Derived Data: Diagnosing and Reconciling Differences

Rosalyn F. MacCracken, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA; and P. Houser, E. Wood, J. Sheffield, D. Lettenmaier, R. T. Pinker, C. D. Kummerow, M. Pan, H. Gao, A. Sahoo, and J. Bytheway

513

Development of Genetic Algorithm based Hidden Markov Model for Root Zone Soil Moisture Predictions

Yongchul Shin, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX; and B. P. Mohanty and A. Ines