Session: remote sensing of hydrologic processes (2002 Annual)

8:30 AM

3.1

Improving western United States snow water equivalent (SWE) estimates from passive microwave sensors

Shanna T. L. Pitter, Iowa State Univ., Ames, IA; and A. W. Nolin

Poster PDF (96.1 kB)

8:45 AM

3.2

ACTIVE - PASSIVE REMOTE SENSING OF SOIL MOISTURE

Venkat Lakshmi, Univ. of South Carolina, Columbia, SC

Poster PDF (47.6 kB)

9:00 AM

3.3

Utility of remote sensing in modeling spatial patterns of evapotranspiration

William P. Kustas, USDA/ARS, Beltsville, MD; and R. Bindlish and A. N. French

3.4

The retrieval of surface soil moisture from passive microwave satellite data using a physical minimization method with modified polarization-ratio terms

9:15 AM

3.5

Measurement of near-surface soil moisture with continually-calibrated TDR instruments

Brian K. Hornbuckle, Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI; and A. W. England

http://www.eecs.umich.edu/grs

Poster PDF (4.1 MB)

9:30 AM

3.6

A coupled model of land surface CO2 and energy fluxes and its application to the SGP sites using remotely sensed data

Xiwu Zhan, Raytheon ITSS Corporation, Lanham, MD; and W. P. Kustas, A. N. French, T. J. Jackson, and T. J. Schmugge

9:45 AM

3.7

Disaggregation of microwave remote sensing data for estimating near-surface soil moisture using a Neural Network

William L. Crosson, National Space Science and Technology Center, Huntsville, AL; and C. A. Laymon, M. P. Schamschula, and A. Steward

http://www.caos.aamu.edu/HSCaRS/LinDANet/

Poster PDF (2.8 MB)

3.8

Seasonal Characteristics of the Gulf of Mexico-Caribbean Basin Water Budget during One Semiannual Cycle as Retrieved from Satellite

3.9

An evaluation of microwave rainfall climatologies from the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission

10:02 AM

3.10

Error analysis of microwave land rainfall estimation algorithms

Jeffrey R. McCollum, Univ. of Maryland, College Park and NOAA/NESDIS, Camp Springs, MD; and R. R. Ferraro

10:17 AM

3.11

A Comparison of Total Precipitable Water Observations from Satellite and Reanalysis Climatologies

Ralph R. Ferraro, NOAA/NESDIS, Camp Spring, MD; and A. Gruber

10:32 AM

3.12

Global Estimates of the Diurnal Cycle of Rainfall from a Trmm-Calibrated Infrared Rainfall Algorithm

Liming Xu, Univ. of Arizona, Tucson, AZ and NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and A. J. Negri and R. F. Adler

10:47 AM

3.13

Incorporating numerical weather prediction model parameters into the retrieval of precipitation from the Special Sensor Microwave/Imager

Robert J. Kuligowski, NOAA/NESDIS, Camp Springs, MD; and W. Chen, R. R. Ferraro, and R. Treadon

11:02 AM

3.14

Quantification of error in rainfall estimated from limited samples in space and time

Matthias Steiner, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ; and Y. Zhang, M. L. Baeck, J. A. Smith, and E. F. Wood

Poster PDF (130.2 kB)

11:17 AM

3.15

A real-time daily precipitation analysis over South Asia

Pingping Xie, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/CPC, Camp Springs, MD; and Y. Yarosh, T. Love, J. E. Janowiak, and P. A. Arkin

Poster PDF (723.1 kB)

11:32 AM

3.16

Inter-comparison of CHARM Data and WSR-88D Storm Integrated Rainfall

Gary J. Jedlovec, NASA/MSFC, Huntsville, AL; and P. J. Meyer and A. R. Guillory

Poster PDF (100.0 kB)

11:47 AM

3.17

Distribution of daily rain gauge observations over hourly intervals with the aid of satellite precipitation estimates

Michael A. Fortune, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD

12:02 PM

3.18

Investigation of a WSR-88D Z-R relation for snowfall in northern Utah

Steven V. Vasiloff, NOAA/NSSL, Norman, Oklahoma

Poster PDF (642.1 kB)

12:17 PM

3.7a

Coffee Break in Poster Session Room

12:45 PM

3.15a

Lunch Break

Session 3: remote sensing of hydrologic processes