Session 12 |
| | Data Assimilation |
| | Organizer: Matthew Rodell, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD
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| 10:30 AM | 12.1 | Genetic Algorithm Based Image Registration Automatic Morphing: Application to Continuous Tracking of Rain Fields
Jearanai Vongssard, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA; and L. Chiu, T. El-Ghazawi, J. Weinman, and R. Yang |
| 10:50 AM | 12.2 | The GAPP/GCIP multi-institution North American Land Data Assimilation System (N-LDAS)
Kenneth E. Mitchell, NCEP/EMC (NOAA/NWS), Camp Springs, MD; and P. Houser, J. Schaake, E. Wood, A. Robock, D. Lettenmaier, D. Lohmann, B. Cosgrove, Q. Duan, J. Sheffield, L. Luo, W. Higgins, D. Tarpley, R. Pinker, and J. Meng |
| 11:10 AM | 12.3 | Real-time and retrospective forcing in the North American Land Data Assimilation System (N-LDAS) project
Brian A. Cosgrove, SAIC and NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and D. Lohmann, K. E. Mitchell, P. R. Houser, E. F. Wood, J. Schaake, D. P. Lettenmaier, A. Robock, L. Luo, Q. Duan, J. Sheffield, J. Meng, W. Higgins, R. Pinker, D. Tarpley, and Y. Lin |
| 11:30 AM | 12.4 | An Intercomparison of North American LDAS Soil Moisture Fields
John Schaake, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and Q. Duan, K. Mitchell, P. Houser, E. Wood, D. Lettenmaier, A. Robock, B. Cosgrove, D. Lohmann, L. Luo, J. Sheffield, W. Higgins, R. Pinker, and D. Tarpley |
| 11:50 AM | 12.5 | NWS-CPC's Monitoring and Prediction of US Soil Moisture and Associated Land Surface Variables: Transition to LDAS
Yun Fan, Climate Prediction Center, Camp Springs, MD; and D. Lohmann, H. M. van den Dool, K. Mitchell, and J. Huang |
| 12:10 PM | 12.6 | Validation of North American-LDAS Modeled Energy Budgets
Eric F. Wood, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ; and J. Meng, F. Wen, K. Mitchell, P. R. Houser, J. Schaake, A. Robock, D. P. Lettenmaier, D. Lohmann, B. Cosgrove, Q. Duan, J. Sheffield, L. Luo, W. Higgins, R. Pinker, and D. Tarpley |
| 12:30 PM | 12.7 | Evaluation of North American LDAS land surface models with observed surface fluxes, soil moisture, and soil temperature
Alan Robock, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ; and L. Luo, K. E. Mitchell, P. R. Houser, E. F. Wood, J. C. Schaake, D. P. Lettenmaier, B. A. Cosgrove, Q. Duan, D. Lohmann, J. Sheffield, W. Higgins, R. T. Pinker, D. Tarpley, K. C. Crawford, and J. B. Basara |
| 12:50 PM | 12.8 | Validation of North American LDAS retrospective forcing with station observations and model experiments
Lifeng Luo, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ; and A. Robock, K. E. Mitchell, P. R. Houser, E. F. Wood, J. C. Schaake, D. P. Lettenmaier, D. Lohmann, B. A. Cosgrove, Q. Duan, J. Sheffield, J. Meng, W. Higgins, R. T. Pinker, D. Tarpley, K. C. Crawford, and J. B. Basara |
| 1:10 PM | 12.9 | Evaluation of streamflow and snowpack simulations in the land surface models of the North American Land Data Assimilation (LDAS) Project
Dag Lohmann, NOAA/NWS/NCEP, Suitland, MD; and M. Pan, K. Mitchell, E. F. Wood, P. R. Houser, J. Schaake, D. Lettenmaier, A. Robock, B. Cosgrove, Q. Duan, J. Sheffield, L. Luo, J. Meng, W. Higgins, R. Pinker, and D. Tarpley |
| 1:30 PM | 12.10 | Use of MODIS-derived snow fields in the Global Land Data Assimilation System
Matthew Rodell, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and P. Houser, U. Jambor, J. Gottschalck, J. Meng, K. Arsenault, N. DiGirolamo, and D. Hall |
| 1:50 PM | 12.11 | Retrospective N-LDAS land surface hydrologic fluxes and state variables, 1950-2000
Edwin P. Maurer, University of Washington, Seattle, WA; and A. W. Wood, J. C. Adam, B. Nijssen, D. P. Lettenmaier, and E. F. Wood |
| 2:10 PM | 12.12 | Cloud/Hydrometeor assimilation into the 20-km RUC using GOES cloud-top and NEXRAD reflectivity data
Dongsoo Kim, CIRES/Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and J. M. Brown and S. G. Benjamin |
| 2:30 PM | 12.13 | An evaluation of the value of measured microwave brightness temperatures for data assimilation
Eleanor J. Burke, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; and W. J. Shuttleworth and R. C. Harlow |