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Science and Applications Results from the NASA Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) Satellite Mission II eLightning

Tuesday, 15 December 2020: 17:30-18:30
Virtual
Primary Convener:  Dara Entekhabi, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Cambridge, MA, United States
Convener:  Simon H Yueh, JPL, Pasadena, CA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Peggy E O'Neill, NASA Goddard SFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Chairs:  Dara Entekhabi, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Cambridge, MA, United States, Simon H Yueh, JPL, Pasadena, CA, United States and Peggy E O'Neill, NASA Goddard SFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Dara Entekhabi, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Cambridge, MA, United States
17:30
Detecting Soil Moisture under Temperate Forest Canopies: SMAP Validation Experiment 2019-2021 (SMAPVEX19-21) (703553)
Andreas Colliander1, Michael H Cosh2, Vicky Kelly3, Simon Kraatz4, Laura L Bourgeau-Chavez5, Paul Siqueira4, Alexandre Roy6, Tarendra Lakhankar7, Alexandra G. Konings8, Nataniel Holtzman8, Sidharth Misra1, Mehmet Kurum9, Dara Entekhabi10, Peggy E O'Neill11 and Simon H Yueh12, (1)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (2)U. S. Dept. of Agriculture, Beltsville, MD, United States, (3)Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies, Millbrook, United States, (4)University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Amherst, United States, (5)Michigan Technological University, MI, USA, Michigan Tech Research Institute, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (6)Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, Québec, United States, (7)NOAA-CREST, The City College of New York, CUNY, New York, NY, United States, (8)Stanford University, Department of Earth System Science, Stanford, CA, United States, (9)Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS, United States, (10)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Cambridge, MA, United States, (11)NASA Goddard SFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (12)JPL, Pasadena, CA, United States
17:33
A Multiple Scattering Model of Brightness Temperatures for Soil Moisture Retrieval in Forests and Comparison with SMAPVEX12 Data (742925)
Maryam Salim1, Shurun Tan2, Roger D De Roo1, Andreas Colliander3 and Kamal Sarabandi1, (1)University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (2)Zhejiang University, Zhejiang University/University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Institute, Haining, China, (3)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
17:36
Information based uncertainty decomposition in SMAP modified Dual Channel Algorithm retrieve soil moisture (685870)
Bonan Li and Stephen P Good, Oregon State University, Department of Biological & Ecological Engineering, Corvallis, OR, United States
17:39
A Temporal Polarization Ratio Algorithm for Calibration-free Retrieval of Soil Moisture at L-band (675182)
Lun Gao, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Civil, Environmental and Geo-Engineering, Minneapolis, MN, United States, Morteza Sadeghi, Golden Valley, MN, United States, Ardeshir M Ebtehaj, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Civil, Environmental, and Geo-Engineering, Minneapolis, MN, United States and Jean-Pierre Wigneron, ISPA, INRA, Bordeaux, France
17:42
Assessing use of Vegetation Attribute from SAR to Improve Performance of the SMAP-Sentinel Active-passive High Resolution Soil Moisture Product (759543)
Narendra N Das, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Water and Carbon Cycle Group, Pasadena, CA, United States and Dara Entekhabi, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Cambridge, MA, United States
17:45
Assimilating satellite soil moisture observations in a hyper-resolution land surface model (666089)
Tasnuva Rouf, George Mason University Fairfax, Sid and Reva Dewberry Dept. of Civil, Environmental & Infrastructure Engineering, Fairfax, VA, United States, Viviana Maggioni, George Mason University Fairfax, Sid and Reva Dewberry Department of Civil, Environmental, and Infrastructure Engineering, Fairfax, VA, United States, Manuela Girotto, UC Berkeley, Environmental Science and Policy Management, Berkeley, CA, United States and Paul Houser, George Mason University Fairfax, Fairfax, VA, United States
17:48
Multiscale soil hydraulic parameterization for improved hydrologic simulations using SMAP (751403)
Vinit Sehgal, Texas A&M University College Station, Water Management and Hydrological Science, College Station, TX, United States and Binayak Mohanty, Texas A&M University, Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering, College Station, TX, United States
17:51
Correction of SMAP (Soil Moisture Active Passive) Satellite Retrieved Soil Moisture Data using Machine Learning Techniques over North West Region of Bangladesh (739947)
Md Hamidul Haque and Nasreen Jahan, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, Water Resources Engineering, Dhaka, Bangladesh
17:54
Evaluation of SMAP Level 2-4 soil moisture products over Michigan, USA (700268)
Xiaoyong Xu, University of Toronto Mississauga, Department of Chemical and Physical Sciences, Mississauga, ON, Canada
17:57
Informing Improvements in Microwave Freeze/Thaw Products using High-Resolution Temperature Data Over North America (661959)
Jeremy M Johnston1, Paul Houser1 and Viviana Maggioni2, (1)George Mason University Fairfax, Fairfax, VA, United States, (2)George Mason University Fairfax, Sid and Reva Dewberry Department of Civil, Environmental, and Infrastructure Engineering, Fairfax, VA, United States
18:00
The impact of NASA SMAP soil moisture data assimilation on Great Plains low-level jet wind forecasts (670529)
Craig R Ferguson1, Shubhi Agrawal1, Mark Beauharnois1, Geng Xia2, David A Burrows1 and Lance F Bosart3, (1)University at Albany State University of New York, Albany, NY, United States, (2)National Renewable Energy Laboratory Golden, Golden, CO, United States, (3)University at Albany, State University of New York, Department of Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences, Albany, NY, United States
18:03
Landscape Response to Tropical Cyclones and the Effects of Antecedent Soil Moisture Using SMAP (757044)
Andrew Roderick Murray, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Geography, Chapel Hill, NC, United States and Diego Riveros-Iregui, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, United States
18:06
Discussion
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