Session: Land surface and hydrologic data assimilation (parallel with Joint Session 3 and Joint Session 4) (85th AMS Annual Meeting)

1:00 PM

1.1

Optimal land initialization for the NCEP Global Forecast System using the NASA Land Information System

Jesse Meng, University of Maryland Baltimore County and NOAA/NWS/NCEP, Baltimore and NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and K. Mitchell, C. Lu, H. Wei, J. Eastman, C. Peters-Lidard, P. Houser, and M. Rodell

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (190.0 kB)

1:15 PM

1.2

The NCEP Stage II/IV hourly precipitation analyses: development and applications

Ying Lin, NOAA/NWS/NCEP, Camp Springs, MD; and K. E. Mitchell

http://www.emc.ncep.noaa.gov/mmb/ylin/pcpanl/

Poster PDF (197.5 kB)

1:30 PM

1.3

The National Mosaic and Multisensor QPE (NMQ) Project—Status and plans for a community testbed for high-resolution multisensor quantitative precipitation estimation (QPE) over the United States

Dong-Jun Seo, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and C. R. Kondragunta, K. Howard, S. V. Vasiloff, and J. Zhang

Poster PDF (265.4 kB)

1:45 PM

1.4

CMORPH: A new high-resolution global precipitation analysis system with potential use for hydrologic model data assimilation

John J. Janowiak, NOAA/CPC, Camp Springs, MD; and R. J. Joyce, P. A. Arkin, and P. Xie

Recorded presentation

2:00 PM

1.5

High-resolution land data assimilation in the NCAR/ATEC real-time FDDA and forecasting system

Andrea N. Hahmann, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and Y. Liu, F. Chen, K. W. Manning, T. T. Warner, and L. Carlson

Recorded presentation Poster PDF (1.1 MB)

2:15 PM

1.6

Forecasts of near-surface variables using a coupled atmosphere-land surface model

Andrew A. Taylor, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and L. M. Leslie and D. J. Stensrud

http://weather.ou.edu/~aataylor/research

Poster PDF (376.9 kB)

2:30 PM

1.7

Terrestrial hydroclimatology from GRACE

J. S. Famiglietti, University of California, Irvine, CA; and J. Chen, M. Rodell, K. W. Seo, T. H. Syed, and C. R. Wilson

Recorded presentation

2:45 PM

1.8

Comparison of GRACE derived terrestrial water storage changes with model, water budget, and observation based estimates

Matthew Rodell, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and N. Johnson, J. S. Famiglietti, J. Chen, S. Seneviratne, S. L. Holl, and P. A. Viterbo

Recorded presentation

3:00 PM

1.9

Bias reduction and assimilation of short records of satellite soil moisture

Rolf H. Reichle, NASA/GSFC and University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Greenbelt, MD; and R. D. Koster

Recorded presentation

3:15 PM

1.10

Estimation of soil moisture fields using multi-scale observations in an ensemble smoother-based four-dimensional land data assimilation system

Susan Dunne, MIT, Cambridge, MA; and D. Entekhabi

3:30 PM

1.11

Parameter sensitivity of soil moisture retrievals using C- and X-band radiometer observations in SMEX02

William L. Crosson, USRA, Huntsville, AL; and A. S. Limaye and C. A. Laymon

3:45 PM

1.12

On Particle Filtering Monte Carlo Approach to Sequential Hydrolometeorological Data Assimilation

Hamid Moradkhani, Center for Hydrometeorology and Remote Sensing / University of California at Irvine (UCI), Irvine, CA; and K. L. Hsu, N. K. Ajami, and S. Sorooshian

Recorded presentation

4:00 PM

1.6a

Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break

Session 1: Land surface and hydrologic data assimilation (parallel with Joint Session 3 and Joint Session 4)