Primary Convener: Michael H Cosh, USDA Agricultural Research Service New England Plant, Soil and Water Research Laboratory, East Wareham, MA, United States
Convener: Todd G Caldwell, USGS Nevada Water Science Center, Carson City, NV, United States
Primary Liaison: Michael H Cosh, U. S. Dept. of Agriculture, Beltsville, MD, United States
Chairs: Michael H Cosh, U. S. Dept. of Agriculture, Beltsville, MD, United States and Todd G Caldwell, University of Texas at Austin, Jackson School of Geosciences, Austin, TX, United States
OSPA Liaison: Michael H Cosh, U. S. Dept. of Agriculture, Beltsville, MD, United States
Developing a Gridded Upscaled Soil Moisture Dataset Using Sparse in situ Observations (776002)
Yaoping Wang, University of Tennessee, Institute for a Secure & Sustainable Environment, Knoxville, TN, United States, Jiafu Mao, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Environmental Sciences Division and Climate Change Science Institute, Oak Ridge, TN, United States, Mingzhou Jin, University of Tennessee, Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Knoxville, TN, United States and Forrest M. Hoffman, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Computational Sciences & Engineering Division and Climate Change Science Institute, Oak Ridge, TN, United States
The dominating control of terrain relief on the soil water content distribution during wet-dry transitions in headwaters (720830)
Xiaole Han, Hohai University, School of Earth Sciences and Engineering, Nanjing, China, Jintao Liu, Hohai University, State Key Laboratory of Hydrology-Water Resources and Hydraulic Engineering, Nanjing, China, Puneet Srivastava, University of Maryland, College of Agriculture and Natural Resources, College Park, MD, United States, Hu Liu, Linze Inland River Basin Research Station, Lanzhou, China and Xiaopeng Li, Institute of Soil Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing, China
Flood irrigation agriculture: the challenges of in-situ soil moisture monitoring in lands with high clay content (715103)
Zulia Mayari Sanchez-Mejia1, Enrico A. Yepez1, Ofelda Peñuelas-Rubio2, Jony R Torres-Velázquez2, Juan C Alvarez-Yepiz3, Francisco J. Gaxiola-Ortiz3 and Jaime Garatuza-Payan1, (1)Instituto Tecnológico de Sonora, Departamento de Ciencias del Agua y Medio Ambiente, Ciudad Obregón, SO, Mexico, (2)Instituto Tecnológico del Valle del Yaqui, Bácum, Mexico, (3)Instituto Tecnológico de Sonora, Ciencias del Agua y Medio Ambiente, Ciudad Obregón, Mexico
Assessment of the NASA MERRA-2 Climate Reanalysis and ESA CCI Satellite Remote Sensing Soil Moisture Products Over the Contiguous United States (672621)
Mohammad Valipour1, Sayed M. Bateni1, Essam Heggy2, Jörg Dietrich3 and Mansour Almazroui4, (1)University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI, United States, (2)University of Southern California, Electrical Engineering - Electrophysics, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (3)Leibniz University Hannover, Institute of Hydrology and Water Resources Management, Hannover, Germany, (4)King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
Development of a high resolution soil moisture data portal for Greater Mekong region (768220)
Bui Thi Phuong Thao1, Du Duong Bui2, Bin Fang3, Venkataraman (Venkat) Lakshmi4, Hoang Van Hung2 and Manh-Hung Le4, (1)Thuy Loi University, Hanoi, Vietnam, (2)National Center for Water Resources Planning and Investigation, Hanoi, Vietnam, (3)University of South Carolina, School of Earth Ocean and Environment, Columbia, SC, United States, (4)University of Virginia, Engineering Systems and Environment, Charlottesville, VA, United States
Improvements of satellite observations through data merging: status and challenges (687392)
Seokhyeon Kim1, Runze Zhang2, Ashish Sharma3 and Venkataraman (Venkat) Lakshmi2, (1)University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia, (2)University of Virginia, Engineering Systems and Environment, Charlottesville, VA, United States, (3)University of New South Wales, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Real-time ET Estimation based on Soil Moisture Sensor Array (723694)
Ziqi Li1, Qina Yan2, Haruko M Wainwright3, Weiyu Li4, Baptiste Dafflon3, Stefan Finsterle5 and Tetsu K Tokunaga6, (1)INSA Institut National des Sciences Appliquées, Lyon, France, (2)University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL, United States, (3)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, (4)Stanford University, Stanford, United States, (5)Earth Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, (6)Earth and Environment Sciences Area, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States
A Remote Sensing Approach to Characterising Soil Moisture Regimes on Poorly Drained Soils in Ireland (683387)
Rumia Basu1,2, Patrick Tuohy2 and Eve Daly3,4, (1)National University of Ireland Galway, Galway, Ireland, (2)Vista Milk SFI Research Centre, Teagasc, Cork, Ireland, (3)National University of Ireland, Galway, Galway, Ireland, (4)Earth and Ocean Sciences and Ryan Institute, College of Science and Engineering, National University of Ireland, Galway, Galway, Ireland