Session: Instrumentation and Remote Sensing to Observe Water in all its Phases (Joint with the Symposium on Observing and Understanding the Variability of Water in Weather and Climate and the 17th Conference on Hydrology) (83rd Annual)

8:30 AM

J3.1

Mesonetworks and Surface Instrumentation (Invited Presentation)

Scott J. Richardson, Penn State University, University Park, PA

9:00 AM

J3.2

The Global Soil Moisture Data Bank: An update including new United States stations

Alan Robock, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ; and L. Luo, M. Mu, and K. Vinnikov

9:15 AM

J3.3

Water measurements using a Raman Lidar

David N. Whiteman, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and B. Demoz, Z. Wang, I. Veselovskii, K. Evans, and P. Di Girolamo

http://virl.gsfc.nasa.gov/srl/index.htm

Poster PDF (245.2 kB)

9:30 AM

J3.4

Raman lidar: A versatile remote sensing instrument for water vapor and cirrus cloud studies

Thomas P. Ackerman, PNNL, Richland, WA; and J. M. Comstock and D. D. Turner

Poster PDF (315.2 kB)

9:45 AM

J3.5

A Reference Radiosonde System for Improving Water Vapor Measurement in IHOP_2002

Junhong Wang, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and T. F. Hock, D. Lauritsen, H. L. Cole, K. Beierle, N. Chamberlain, D. B. Parsons, and D. J. Carlson

Poster PDF (495.2 kB)

10:00 AM

J3.6

Retrieval of upper tropospheric humidity from AMSU data

Viju Oommen John, Institute of Environmental Physics, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany; and S. Buehler and M. Kuvatov

Poster PDF (375.6 kB)

10:15 AM

J3.7

Free Tropospheric Humidity observations from METEOSAT water vapor channel data

Rémy Roca, LMD, Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France; and H. Brogniez, L. Picon, and M. Desbois

Poster PDF (356.0 kB)

10:30 AM

J3.8

Leveraging Improvements in Precipitation Measuring from GPM Mission to Achieve Prediction Improvements in Climate, Weather & Hydrometeorology (Invited Presentation)

Eric A. Smith, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD

11:00 AM

J3.9

Using Satellites to Monitor Surface Wetness

Alan Basist, NOAA/NCDC, Asheville, NC; and C. Williams

Poster PDF (80.0 kB)

11:15 AM

J3.10

Soil moisture measurements and modeling for validating AMSR-E soil moisture products

Charles A. Laymon, USRA, Huntsville, AL; and F. Archer III, W. L. Crosson, and A. Limaye

11:30 AM

J3.11

Fractional snow cover in the Colorado River and Rio Grande basins, 1995–2002

Roger C. Bales, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; and B. Imam, D. Lampkin, S. R. Helfrich, and S. R. Fassnacht

11:45 AM

J3.12

Satellite observations of river and wetland hydrologic processes

Douglas E. Alsdorf, Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA; and D. P. Lettenmaier

12:00 PM

J3.13

Monitoring Global Precipitation Using Satellite Observations: Status and Future

Robert F. Adler, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and G. J. Huffman, S. Curtis, D. Bolvin, and E. Nelkin

12:15 PM

J3.14

Trends and variability in climate rainfall products

Christian D. Kummerow, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO; and W. Berg, T. L'Ecuyer, and C. Morales

12:30 PM

J3.15

Rainfall Estimation and Hydrometeor Type Classification with a Polarimetric WSR-88D Radar

Terry J. Schuur, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma and NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK; and A. V. Ryzhkov and D. S. Zrnic

Poster PDF (114.4 kB)

12:45 PM

J3.16

Comparison of Reflectivity and Precipitation Fields Estimated by Two Radar Systems

Hatim Sharif, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and E. Brandes and W. Krajewski

Poster PDF (240.4 kB)

1:00 PM

J3.17

Using ISCCP Cloud Data to Assess the Performance of Space Borne Lidar Systems

Hans-Stefan Bauer, Hohenheim University, Stuttgart, Germany; and H. Bauer, I. Henning-Müller, and V. Wulfmeyer

1:15 PM

J3.18

Water balance computations of seasonal changes in terrestrial water storage: case study for the Mississippi river basin and methodology validation against observations from Illinois

Sonia I. Seneviratne, ETH, 8057 Zurich, Switzerland; and P. Viterbo, D. Lüthi, and C. Schaer

Poster PDF (788.6 kB)

1:30 PM

J3.19

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

Pablo Santos, NOAA/NWS, Miami, FL; and E. A. Smith

http://gandalf.met.fsu.edu/~psantos/research/bgt/

Poster PDF (172.7 kB)

1:45 PM

J3.20

Updating NOAA/NWS Rainfall Frequency Atlases

Geoffrey M. Bonnin, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and B. Lin and T. Parzybok

http://www.nws.noaa.gov/oh/hdsc

Poster PDF (154.5 kB)

2:00 PM

J3.2a

Oral Briefing: 1-2 Minute Presentation Summarizing Posters in Session JP2

2:30 PM

J3.7a

Lunch Break

3:45 PM

J3.12a

Coffee Break in exhibit hall (exhibits open 1:30–6:30)

4:15 PM

J3.2b

Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break

Joint Session 3: Instrumentation and Remote Sensing to Observe Water in all its Phases (Joint with the Symposium on Observing and Understanding the Variability of Water in Weather and Climate and the 17th Conference on Hydrology)