Session 1 |
| | SMEX and SMACEX 2002: Soil Moisture and Soil Moisture-Atmosphere Coupling |
| | Organizer: Christa D. Peters-Lidard, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD
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| 9:00 AM | | Introductory Remarks
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| 9:15 AM | 1.1 | Ground-based soil moisture observations within AMSR-E footprints during SMEX02
J. S. Famiglietti, University of California, Irvine, CA; and A. A. Berg, D. Ryu, S. L. Holl, K. -. W. Seo, R. Bindlish, M. Cosh, and T. J. Jackson |
| 9:30 AM | 1.2 | An Overview of the Soil-Moisture-Atmospheric-Coupling-Experiment (SMACEX) in Central Iowa 
W. P. Kustas, USDA/ARS, Beltsville, MD; and J. H. Prueger, J. L. Hatfield, J. I. MacPherson, M. Wolde, C. M. U. Neale, W. E. Eichinger, D. I. Cooper, J. M. Norman, and M. C. Anderson |
| 9:45 AM | 1.3 | Aircraft and Tower-Measured Fluxes Over Rapidly Growing Corn and Soybean Crops in Central Iowa
J. I. MacPherson, Institute for Aerospace Research, National Research Council of Canada, Ottawa, ON, Canada; and M. Wolde, W. P. Kustas, and J. H. Prueger |
| 10:00 AM | 1.4 | High Resolution Lidar Evaporative Fluxes Over Corn and Soybean Crops in Central Iowa During SMACEX
W.E. Eichinger, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA; and J. Nichols, D. I. Cooper, L. E. Hipps, W. P. Kustas, C. M. U. Neale, and J. H. Prueger |
| 10:15 AM | | Coffee Break in poster session room
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| 10:45 AM | 1.5 | Spatial Variability of Turbulent Fluxes Across a Corn/Soybean Production Region in Central Iowa
John H. Prueger, USDA, Ames, IA; and W. P. Kustas, L. E. Hipps, J. L. Hatfield, A. Cahill, C. A. Williams, J. D. Albertson, W. E. Eichinger, D. I. Cooper, N. Brunsell, and R. Gillies |
| 11:00 AM | 1.6 | Spatially Distributed Fluxes Obtained with High-Resolution Remote Sensing During SMACEX in Central Iowa
Christopher M. U. Neale, Utah State University, Logan, UT; and W. P. Kustas, J. H. Prueger, and L. E. Hipps |
| 11:15 AM | 1.7 | Comparison of aircraft- and tower-measured fluxes acquired during SMACEX with predictions from a regional atmosphere-land exchange model
Martha C. Anderson, UW-Madison, Madison, WI; and J. M. Norman, W. P. Kustas, J. H. Prueger, C. M. U. Neale, J. I. MacPherson, J. R. Mecikalski, and G. R. Diak |
|  | 1.8 | Impact of soil moisture on boundary-layer cloud development
Michael Ek, NOAA/NWS/NCEP, Suitland, MD; and A. A. M. Holtslag |
| 11:30 AM | | Discussion
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