Session: Land Data Assimilation Techniques and Systems, Part I (97th American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting)

Wednesday, 25 January 2017: 8:30 AM-10:00 AM

604 (Washington State Convention Center )

Host: 31st Conference on Hydrology

Cochairs:

Clara Draper, USRA, Columbia, MD; John Bolten, NASA, Hydrological Sciences Lab, Greenbelt, MD; Youlong Xia, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/EMC, College Park, MD and Kun Yang, Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences (ITP-CAS), Key Laboratory of Tibetan Environment Changes and Land Surface Processes, Beijing, N/A

Papers:

8:30 AM

8A.1

Evaluating MERRA-2 Reanalysis Surface Radiation and Turbulent Fluxes with Satellite and Ground-Based Observations

Clara Draper, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and R. Reichle and R. D. Koster

8:45 AM

8A.2

Land data assimilation in China: A review (Invited Presentation)

Xin Li, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou, China; and M. Fang

9:00 AM

8A.3

Evaluating and Benchmarking enhancements to the North American Land Data Assimilation System (Invited Presentation)