H020
Advancing hydrologic modeling and prediction in the U.S. through new observations and scalable observing networks

Session ID#: 159992

Session Description:
In the U.S., hydrologic monitoring and physically-based hydrologic forecast skill is critically impaired due to lacking or uncoordinated and/or nonintegrated observations. Hydrologic models and convection-permitting climate models at 3-km resolution or finer are commonplace, but the network density required to verify their outputs exist at only a few sites, such as DOE ARM-SGP. Likewise, while NOAA, NCAR and DOE have implemented hierarchical Earth system modeling systems to streamline model development and process understanding, there is limited observational capability to verify cross-scale land–atmospheric processes. This session invites studies that explore ways to deploy, evaluate, improve and integrate existing surface observational networks across regional to continental scales, in the context of terrestrial-based and satellite remote sensing, and in support of hydrologic monitoring and the hierarchical Earth system modeling enterprise. Studies that demonstrate a synergistic network-of-networks approach or that merge multiple data classes (i.e., satellite, ground, research, low cost sensors) are encouraged.
Index Terms:

1848 Monitoring networks [HYDROLOGY]
1855 Remote sensing [HYDROLOGY]
3322 Land/atmosphere interactions [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
3355 Regional modeling [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]

Primary Convener:  Craig R Ferguson, University at Albany State University of New York, Albany, NY, United States
Conveners:  Michael H Cosh, U. S. Dept. of Agriculture, Beltsville, MD, United States, Timothy Schneider, Research Applications Laboratory, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States and Peter J van Oevelen, Universities Space Research Association Columbia, Columbia, MD, United States; George Mason University Fairfax, Fairfax, VA, United States
 
Advancing our hydrologic predictive capabilities from comprehensive field campaigns and advanced research networks (Invited) (1046829)
Tilden P Meyers, NOAA OAR Air Resources Laboratory, Boulder, United States
 
Broadscale fire forecasting and high-resolution drought forecasting in the western United States with statistical models (1075010)
Ronnie Abolafia-Rosenzweig1, Cenlin He2, Fei Chen3, Kyoko Ikeda4, Timothy Schneider5 and Roy Rasmussen1, (1)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, United States, (2)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Research Applications Laboratory, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Research Applications Laboratory, Boulder, United States, (4)National Center for Atmospheric Research, RAL, Boulder, CO, United States, (5)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States
 
Eliciting the Drivers of Ecosystem Evapotranspiration (ET) Partitioning and its links to Carbon Sequestration in a Semiarid Ecosystem of the U.S. Southwest (1076719)
Habibur Howlider, University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, TX, United States and Hernan A Moreno, University of Texas at El Paso, Earth, Environmental and Resource Sciences, El Paso, United States
 
Empirical relationship between GNSS-derived antecedent water storage and streamflow runoff in the western United States (1091939)
Nicholas Lau1, Ellen Knappe2 and Adrian A Borsa1, (1)Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, United States, (2)Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States
 
Streamflow prediction in ungauged watersheds in the United States through data-driven sparse sensing (1096005)
Kun Zhang, Marquette University, Department of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering, Milwaukee, WI, United States and Anthony Parolari, Marquette University, Department of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering, Milwaukee, United States
 
Development and Validation of Groundwater Abstraction Prediction Model in the Central Valley, California (1130546)
Melanie Holland, University of Colorado at Boulder, Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Engineering, Boulder, CO, United States
 
On cross-mapping near-surface and boundary-layer observations with gridded model data for data assimilation and/or model evaluation (Invited) (1168054)
Stan Benjamin, Retired, Boulder, United States, Tatiana G Smirnova, University of Colorado Boulder, CIRES, Boulder, CO, United States, David D Turner, NOAA Global Systems Laboratory, Boulder, CO, United States, Eric James, CU/CIRES and NOAA/GSL, Boulder, CO, United States, Ming Hu, CIRES/University of Colorado and NOAA/ESRL/GSD, Boulder, United States and Siwei He, CIRES, Boulder, United States
 
Implementation of a SPARROW-Based Monitoring Network Optimization Using Available Models. (1173284)
Joel Blomquist, U.S. Geological Survey, Baltimore, MD, United States, Gregory E. Schwarz, U.S. Geological Survey, Reston, VA, United States, Scott Ator, USGS Baltimore, Baltimore, United States, Andrew Sekellick, USGS Maryland/Delaware/District of Columbia Water Science Center, Baltimore, MD, United States and Theodore Thompson, United States Geological Survey, Lawrenceville, United States
 
Understanding Agroecosystem Dynamics in the Little River Experimental Watershed of Southern Georgia, USA: Incorporating UAVSAR AMPM Airborne Campaign Data with Landscape Measurements (1177191)
Alisa Coffin, USDA-Agricultural Research Service, Tifton, GA, United States, Seungbum Kim, Jet Propulsion Lab,California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, Nathan M Torbick, Appled Geosolutions, Northwood, NH, United States, Michael H Cosh, U. S. Dept. of Agriculture, Beltsville, MD, United States, Andrea Albright, University of Houston, Houston, United States and David D Bosch, USDA, ARS, Tifton, GA, United States
 
An Observational and Modeling Strategy in Support of a Regional Hydroclimate Project “Digital Twin” of the United States (1186747)
Timothy Schneider, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States, Sarah A Tessendorf, NCAR, Boulder, CO, United States, Peter Vanoevelen, GEWEX Project Office, Washington D.C., United States, Craig R Ferguson, SUNY at Albany, Albany, NY, United States, Francina Dominguez, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Urbana, IL, United States and Ali Nazemi, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada
 
A coordinated enhanced network strategy proposal to monitor North America’s major agricultural systems, prove NASA’s satellite products, and improve hydrologic prediction (1199602)
Craig R Ferguson, University at Albany State University of New York, Albany, NY, United States, Michael Cosh, USDA ARS, Baltimore, United States, Charles N. Kroll, SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry, Syracuse, United States, Lundquist Jessica, University of Washington, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Seattle, WA, United States, Andrew N French, USDA-ARS, U.S. Arid-Land Agricultural Research Center, Maricopa, AZ, United States, Lance F Bosart, University at Albany, SUNY, Department of Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences, Albany, NY, United States, Paul Dirmeyer, COLA, Fairfax, VA, United States, Volker Wulfmeyer, University of Hohenheim, Institute of Physics and Meteorology, Stuttgart, Germany, David D Turner, NOAA Global Systems Laboratory, Boulder, CO, United States, Peter J van Oevelen, George Mason University Fairfax, Fairfax, VA, United States, Michael B Ek, NCAR, RAL, Boulder, United States and Gab Abramowitz, Climate Change Research Centre, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia
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