Session: Advances in Evaporation and Evaporative Demand, Part II (96th American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting)

Wednesday, 13 January 2016: 8:30 AM-10:00 AM

Room 240/241 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: 30th Conference on Hydrology

Cochairs:

Michael Hobbins, NOAA, Physical Sciences Division, Boulder, CO; Martha C. Anderson, USDA/ARS, Hydrology and Remote Sensing Lab, Beltsville, MD; Christopher Hain, University of Maryland, Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, Camp Springs, MD and Jennifer C. Adam, Washington State University, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Pullman, WA

Advances in the estimation of evapotranspiration (ET) and atmospheric evaporative demand (Eo) are made across a broad range of scales and techniques, from in-situ observations to remote sensing and modeling. Specific topics for this session may include but are not limited to: (1) estimating ET from various perspectives: remote sensing platforms, ground-based point observations and parameterizations, plant-based experimentation, and water budgets; (2) operational ET estimation; (3) land surface-atmosphere feedbacks; (4) future remote sensing missions and needs for ET; (5) Eo as an input to operational LSMs to derive ET, schedule crop irrigation, and as a metric of hydroclimatic trends and variability.Please contact the program organizer, Mike Ek (Michael.Ek@noaa.gov) for additional information.

Papers:

8:30 AM

6.1

Estimating Evapotranspiration in the Caribbean Region using an Operational Water and Energy Balance Algorithm

Eric W. Harmsen, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez,, PR; and J. R. Mecikalski and E. Álvarez Pérez

Recorded Presentation