H115
Remote Sensing and Modeling of the Terrestrial Water Cycle

Session ID#: 75331

Session Description:
Hydrologic models and remote sensing are essential tools for studying the changing nature of the terrestrial water cycle. Advances in the areas of remote sensing and modeling allowed the integration of these two approaches and the use of multiple sensors and variables simultaneously to better understand the spatial and temporal dynamics of the water cycle and the available water resources at various scales. Some of the major missions proven valuable for hydrologic modeling include SMAP, SMOS, AMSR2, TRMM, GPM, TOPEX, SWOT, AIRS/AMSU, GRACE and MODIS. This session aims to share the latest developments in hydrologic modeling and use of remote sensing for monitoring and estimation of hydrological variables, discuss the challenges and possible solutions, and present future research and application directions. We invite multi-scale, multi-variable and multi-sensor studies that use remote sensing techniques and modeling approaches to assess the spatiotemporal variability in water resources and study the terrestrial water cycle.
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • WCRP: World Climate Research Programme -
Index Terms:

1816 Estimation and forecasting [HYDROLOGY]
1836 Hydrological cycles and budgets [HYDROLOGY]
1847 Modeling [HYDROLOGY]
1855 Remote sensing [HYDROLOGY]

Primary Convener:  Iliana E Mladenova, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States and venkat lakshmi
Conveners:  Venkat Lakshmi, Professor, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, United States, Sayed M. Bateni, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI, United States and venkat lakshmi
Primary Liaison:  Iliana E Mladenova, USDA/ARS BARC-W, Bldg 007, Beltsville, MD, United States and venkat lakshmi
 
SMAP radiometer soil moisture downscaling at global scale (489750)
Bin Fang, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, United States, Venkat Lakshmi, Professor, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, United States, Rajat Bindlish, Goddard Earth Sciences Technology and Research, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Pang-Wei Liu, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States
 
Assimilation of GPS soil moisture data from CYGNSS into land surface models (490355)
Hyunglok Kim, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, United States, Yonghwan Kwon, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center / UMD ESSIC, Greenbelt, MD, United States; University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States, Sujay V Kumar, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Venkat Lakshmi, Professor, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, United States
 
Identifying Relative Strength of Three Remotely Sensed Soil Moisture Products Using A Model Combination Approach (493666)
Runze Zhang1, Seokhyeon Kim2, Ashish Sharma2 and Venkataraman Lakshmi3, (1)University of Virginia, Engineering Systems and Environment, Charlottesville, VA, United States, (2)University of New South Wales, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Sydney, NSW, Australia, (3)University of Virginia Charlottesville VA 22904, Engineering Systems and Environment, Charlottesville VA, United States
 
Evaluation of two blended microwave soil moisture products with in-situ measurements and reanalysis data (496628)
Yawei Wang, Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich, Department of Geography, Munich, Germany, Jian Peng, University of Oxford, School of Geography and the Environment, Oxford, United Kingdom, Pei Leng, Ministry of Agriculture/Institute of Agricultural Resources and Regional Planning, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing, China and Ralf Ludwig, Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich, Geography, Munich, Germany
 
Hyper-Local Soil Moisture Estimates from Satellites via Scale Invariance of Hydrologic Simulations (501431)
Giuseppe Mascaro1, Enrique R Vivoni2 and Ara Ko1, (1)Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States, (2)Arizona State University, School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment, Tempe, AZ, United States
 
Spatial Optimization and Parameterization of a Distributed Hydrological Model: A Remote Sensing-based Approach for Improving ET Patters (501813)
Mohsen Soltani and Simon Stisen, Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland, København K, Denmark
 
Calibrating a hydrologic model accounting for the unique space-time sampling of the Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) Mission (502395)
Cassandra Nickles, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, United States and Edward Beighley, Northeastern University, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Boston, MA, United States
 
Coupled Estimation of Evapotranspiration and Recharge from Remotely Sensed Soil Moisture and Land Surface Temperature (Invited) (503657)
Leila Farhadi, George Washington University, Washington, DC, United States
 
Applications of TRMM- and GPM-Era Multiple-Satellite Precipitation Products for Flood Simulations at Sub-Daily Scales in a Sparsely Gauged Watershed in Myanmar (504405)
Fei Yuan, Hohai University, State Key Laboratory of Hydrology, Water Resources and Hydraulic Engineering, Nanjing, China and Limin Zhang, Hohai University, Nanjing, China
 
Automatic satellite-based flood mapping for disaster response (504607)
Elizabeth Carter1, Kevin Dobbs2, Rachel Sleeter3, John W. Jones4, Brian Coltin5, Scott McMichael6, Michael Furlong5, Jonathan D Stock7 and Jack Eggleston8, (1)USGS, Moffet Field, CA, United States, (2)National Geospatial Intelligence Agency, Springfield, United States, (3)US Geological Survey, Water Resources Mission Area, Gig Harbor, WA, United States, (4)US Geological Survey, Hydrologic Remote Sensing Branch, Reston, VA, United States, (5)NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, United States, (6)NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, United States, (7)US Geological Survey, Menlo Park, CA, United States, (8)USGS, Hydrologic Remote Sensing Branch, Leetown, WV, United States
 
Long-term Total Water Storage Change from a SAtellite Water Cycle (SAWC) reconstruction over large south Asian basins (504663)
Victor Pellet, University of Tokyo, Institute of Industrial Sciences, Tokyo, Japan, Filipe Aires, Estellus S.A.S., Paris, France, Fabrice Papa, LEGOS,IRD, Toulouse, France, Simon Munier, CNRM UMR 3589, Météo-France/CNRS, Toulouse, France, Bertrand Decharme, CNRM-GAME, Toulouse Cedex 01, France and Dai Yamazaki, The University of Tokyo, Institute of Industrial Sciences, Tokyo, Japan
 
Turbulent Heat Fluxes: Estimation with Variational Data Assimilation Method and Validation (Invited) (505979)
Tongren Xu1, Xinlei He2, Sayed M. Bateni3, Shaomin Liu1 and Fei Chen4, (1)Faculty of Geographical Science, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China, (2)Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China, (3)University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI, United States, (4)NCAR/RAL, Boulder, CO, United States
 
Downscaling of CCI soil moisture product based on apparent thermal inertia: Considering the effect of vegetation condition (506239)
Yanchen Bo, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China and Zhongzhen Zhu, Beijing Normal University, Faculty of Geographical Science, Beijing, China
 
Implications of Model Selection: Inter-Comparison of Publicly-Available CONUS Extent Hydrologic Component Estimates (506549)
Samuel Saxe1,2, William Hastings Farmer1, Jessica M Driscoll1 and Terri S Hogue2, (1)U.S. Geological Survey, Analysis and Prediction Branch, Lakewood, CO, United States, (2)Colorado School of Mines, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Golden, CO, United States
 
REESEN: A remotely-sensed ensemble for estimating the terrestrial water balance (508496)
Ronnie Abolafia-Rosenzweig, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, Ben Livneh, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, CO, United States and Ming Pan, Princeton University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Princeton, NJ, United States
 
Spatiotemporal Estimation and Evaluation of Soil Moisture Deficit from Remotely Sensed Surface Soil Moisture for Sugarcane Crop for the Indo-Gangetic Basin (511763)
Anudeep Sure and Onkar Dikshit, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Civil Engineering, Kanpur, India
 
Mapping Regional Evapotranspiration in Cloudy Skies via Variational Assimilation of All-Weather Land Surface Temperature Observations (513162)
Xinlei He, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China, Tongren Xu, Faculty of Geographical Science, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China, Sayed M. Bateni, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI, United States and Shaomin Liu, Beijing Normal University, State Key Laboratory of Earth Surface Processes and Resource Ecology, Faculty of Geographical Science, Beijing, China
 
Evaluation and Uncertainty Analysis of SMAP, SMOS and AMSR2 soil moisture products using distributed ground observation network in the cold and arid regions in the Northwest of China (514909)
Zengyan Wang1, Tao Che2 and Liyun Dai2, (1)Henan University, the College of Environment and Planning, Kaifeng, China, (2)Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou, China
 
The worth of all-weather evapotranspiration for optimizing a regional hydrological model (515788)
Julian Koch, Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland, Copenhagen, Denmark, Simon Stisen, Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland, København K, Denmark, Rasmus Fensholt, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark, Martha Anderson, USDA ARS Hydrology and Remote Sensing Laboratory, Beltsville, MD, United States, Christopher Hain, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL, United States and Thomas Holmes, NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States
 
Evaluation of global gridded meteorological datasets for land surface modeling in Korean Peninsula (516903)
Hahn Chul Jung1,2, Do-Hyuk DK Kang3,4, Euiho Hwang5 and Gwangha Park5, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Hydrological Sciences Laboratory, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)Science Systems and Applications, Inc., Lanham, MD, United States, (3)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, (4)Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, College PARK, United States, (5)K-water Institute, Water Resources Satellite Research Center, Daejeon, South Korea
 
How Adequate the Frequency of Spaceborne Water Elevation Sampling is for Accurate Global Surface Water Assessment? (527456)
Md. Safat Sikder1, Cedric H David1, Charlotte Marie Emery1, Konstantinos Andreadis2, Peirong Lin3, Ming Pan4 and Sylvain Biancamaria5, (1)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (2)University of Massachusetts Amherst, Civil & Environmental Engineering, Amherst, MA, United States, (3)Princeton University, Civil & Environmental Engineering, Princeton, NJ, United States, (4)Princeton University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Princeton, NJ, United States, (5)OMP/LEGOS, Toulouse, France
 
Towards Satellite Altimetry-Based Hydrological Modelling in Ungauged Catchments - A Water-Level Based Calibration of Rainfall-Runoff Models (531350)
Jie Jian, University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC, Australia, Dongryeol Ryu, The University of Melbourne, Department of Infrastructure Engineering, Parkville, VIC, Australia, Q. J. WANG, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Australia, Hyongki Lee, University of Houston, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Houston, TX, United States and Le Thuy Tien Du, University of Houston, Houston, TX, United States
 
Monitoring of "All-weather" Evapotranspiration Using Multi-source Remote Sensing Imagery Over the River Source Region in Southwest China (536601)
Yanfei Ma, Department of Geography, Handan College, Handan, China, Shaomin Liu, Faculty of Geographical Science, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China and Weike Zhang, Handan College, Handan, China
 
Quantification of irrigation water consumption using remote sensing dataset in Korean peninsula (538135)
Seongkeun Cho1, Zohaib Muhammad2 and Minha Choi1, (1)Sungkyunkwan University, Environment and Remote Sensing Laboratory, Department of Water Resources, Graduate School of Water Resources, Suwon, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea, (2)Sungkyunkwan University, Water resources, Suwon, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea
 
Implication of Terrestrial Water Storage Changes on Hydrological Extremes in the Mekong River Basin (552219)
Tamanna Kabir, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, United States and Yadu N Pokhrel, Michigan State University, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, East Lansing, MI, United States
 
Streamflow characterization for water availability and flood risk forecasting in Afghanistan. (556071)
Md Shahriar Pervez, USGS Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center Sioux Falls, Sioux Falls, SD, United States, Amy McNally, US Agency for International Development, Falls Church, United States, Augusto Getirana, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Michael E Budde, Earth Resources Observation Systems Sioux Falls, Sioux Falls, SD, United States, James Rowland, U.S. Geological Survey, Sioux Falls, SD, United States and Harikishan Jayanthi, ASRC Federal Data Solutions /USGS EROS, Sioux Falls, SD, United States
 
Development of a Long-term Consistent Satellite Record of Soil Moisture (556494)
Steven Chan, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States and Rajat Bindlish, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
 
Field-Scale Soil Moisture Retrieval using PALS Airborne Microwave Radiometer during SMAPVEX16 (561825)
Andreas Colliander, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, Sidharth Misra, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, Michael H Cosh, U. S. Dept. of Agriculture, Beltsville, MD, United States, John H Prueger, U. S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, National Laboratory for Agriculture and Environment, Ames, IA, United States, Jarrett Powers, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada - Winnipeg, Winnipeg, MB, Canada, Heather McNairn, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Science and Technology Branch, Ottawa, ON, Canada, Paul Bullock, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada, Aaron A Berg, University of Guelph, Department of Geography, Guelph, ON, Canada, Ramata Magagi, Universite de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC, Canada and Simon H Yueh, JPL, Pasadena, CA, United States
 
Multi-Decadal assessment of water storage changes in the Tigris-Euphrates basin using remote sensing, hydrological models, and monitoring data (572321)
Chung-Yen Kuo, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan, Ashraf Rateb II, University of Texas at Austin, Bureau of Economic geology, Austin, TX, United States and Bridget R Scanlon, University of Texas at Austin, Bureau of Economic Geology, Jackson School of Geosciences, Austin, TX, United States
 
Soil moisture estimation on point and field scale from Sentinel-1 backscatter and optical derived vegetation parameters (575982)
Thomas Weiß, Thomas Ramsauer and Philip Marzahn, Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich, Geography, Munich, Germany
 
Development of Global Satellite Mapping of Wet Surface (GSMaWS) (576466)
Shinta Seto, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan
 
The ESA Water Vapour Climate Change Initiative (WV_cci) (577198)
Michaela Imelda Hegglin, University of Reading, Reading, RG6, United Kingdom, Marc Schroeder, DWD, Offenbach, Germany, Ulrike Falk, Deutscher Wetterdienst (DWD), Offenbach am Main, Germany and ESA WV_cci Team
 
Evaluation of a High Resolution Soil Property Aware Soil Moisture Proxy based on Weather Radar and Satellite Precipitation Estimates (581340)
Thomas Ramsauer, Thomas Weiß and Philip Marzahn, Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich, Geography, Munich, Germany
 
Evaluating the sensitivity of modeled surface soil moisture and microwave brightness temperature to soil profile layering schemes (601981)
Peter J Shellito1, Joseph A Santanello Jr2, Sujay V Kumar3, Patricia Lawston3,4, Michael H Cosh5 and John D Bolten6, (1)University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States, (2)NASA, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (3)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (4)Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, College Park, MD, United States, (5)U. S. Dept. of Agriculture, Beltsville, MD, United States, (6)NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States
 
Multifrequency, Multiscale Active and Passive Microwave Synthetic Dataset for Validating Soil Moisture Algorithms in Agricultural Regions (622702)
Akanksha Garg1, Jasmeet Judge1, Alejandro Monsivais-Huertero2 and Pang-Wei Liu3, (1)Center for Remote Sensing, Agricultural and Biological Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, United States, (2)ESME Ticoman/CDA, National Polytechnic Institute, Mexico City, Mexico, (3)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States
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