Session: Data Assimilation (Mississippi River Climate and Hydrology Conference)

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

Session 12: Data Assimilation