Slide 1
The aim of SASMAS
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Estimation of Spatial Distribution of
Soil Moisture |
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Estimation of Temporal Variation of
Soil Moisture |
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Scaling between Satellite Soil Moisture
Products
and On-Site Point Measurements |
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Connecting Soil Moisture Measurements
with Streamflow Measurements |
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Validation of AMSR-E data |
Subprojects
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Scaling Studies (Manju Hemakumara) |
Areas of Application
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Climatic Modelling |
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Flood Forecasting |
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Agriculture |
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Field Site
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Goulburn River Catchment |
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Proximity to Newcastle |
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Size and geophysical properties |
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Cleared areas |
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Division into 4 subcatchments |
Subcatchments
Surface conditions
Instrumentation
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Installation of … |
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2 weather stations and several rain
gauges |
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26 soil moisture monitoring sites |
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1 flume and 2 river gauges |
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Use of … |
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3 existing weather stations |
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3 stream gauges |
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Location
of Instrumentation
Schematic of a Soil
Moisture Site
Instrumentation
Instrumentation
Streamflow Data
Assimilation
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Why the Focus on Streamflow Data |
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Updating of Soil Moisture States |
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Soil Moisture Estimation under
Vegetation Canopy |
Streamflow Data
Assimilation
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How |
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Gauging stations, flume, soil moisture
sensors and satellite remote sensed data |
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Implementing Streamflow Routing Model
into Rainfall-Runoff Models |
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Variational Approach |
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Ensemble Kalman Filter |
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Approach to Streamflow
Modelling
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- Creating model |
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- Synthetic study on model |
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Application of Mahurangi (NZ) data sets |
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Application of Goulburn data sets |
Acknowledgements
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Australian Research Council
(Research Grant) |
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NASA, Hydrological Sciences Branch
(Instrumentation) |