Research Projects

Optimal Land Initialisation for Seasonal Climate Prediction

• NSIPP Land Working Group Meeting Seminar, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, USA, January 2002.
  Title: Data Set Development; and Evaluations of Catchment Model Sensitivities to Forcing Variations.
  Title: Australia and North America Data Assimilation Considerations (Click on slides to animate).
  Title: Assimilating Remotely Sensed Soil Moisture in the CLM Using the 1D Kalman Filter.
  Title: Snow Assimilation with the NSIPP Catchment-based Land Surface Model using the Extended Kalman filter.

• 82nd AMS Annual Meeting, Symposium on Observations, Data Assimilation and Probabilistic Prediction, Orlando, FL, USA. January 2002.
  Title: Aspects of the Extended and Ensemble Kalman Filters for Land Data Assimilation in the NASA Seasonal-to-Interannual Prediction Project. (pdf 90kB)

• Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, CA, USA, Dec 2001.
  Title: Initialisation of Soil Moisture in a GCM: A North American Case Study.
  Title: Better Use of Remotely Sensed Soil Moisture to Initialise Soil Moisture in Global Climate Models.

• International Workshop on Catchment-scale Hydrological Modeling and Data Assimilation, Wageningen, The Netherlands, September 2001.
  Title: Initialisation of Soil Moisture in a GCM: A North American Case Study.
  Title: Extended vs Ensemble Kalman Filtering for Soil Moisture Assimilation.

• IGARRS'01, Sydney, NSW, Australia. July 2001.
  Title: Temporal and Spatial Resolution Requirements for a Soil Moisture Mission. (pdf 487kB)

• NSIPP Science Team/Land Working Group Meeting Seminar, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, USA, June 2001.
  Title: Soil Moisture Assimilation Using the 1D EKF.
  Title: Optimal Land Initialization for Seasonal Cliamte Prediction.
  1979 SMMR Assimilation Animation (34.2MB).

• Walker, J. P. and Houser, P. R., 2001. A Methodology for Initializing Soil Moisture in a Global Climate Model: Assimilation of Near-Surface Soil Moisture Observations. Journal of Geophysical Research - Atmospheres, 106(D11): 11767-11774. Copyright 2001 American Geophysical Union (pdf 5.36MB)

• Spring Meeting of the American Geophysical Union, Washington, DC, USA, May 2001.
  Title: Accuracy Requirements for a Soil Moisture Mission.
  Title: The Sensitivity of Land Surface Model Simulations to the NCEP/NCAR, ERA-15, and Bias Reduced Forcing Datasets.

• NSIPP Land Working Group Meeting Seminar, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, USA, March 2001.
  Title: Optimal Land Initialization for Seasonal Climate Prediction Forcing Data Set Construction.
  Title: Optimal Land Initialization for Seasonal Climate Predictions.
  Title: Soil Moisture Data Assimilation Using the 1D Kalman Filter.
  AVI Animations for 1979 (~2MB each): January Febuary March April May June July August September October November December

• 81st AMS Annual Meeting, 12th Symposium on Global Change Studies, Albuquerque, NM, USA. January 2001.
  Title: Development of a Catchment Based Hydrometeorological Forcing Data Set for Land Surface Modeling Applications. (pdf 38kB) (poster)

• 81st AMS Annual Meeting, 5th Symposium on Integrated Observing Systems, Albuquerque, NM, USA. January 2001.
  Title: A Synthetic Study on the Influence of Error in Surface Soil Moisture Observations on Assimilation. (pdf 308kB) (slides)

• Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, CA, USA, December 2000.
  Title: Production of a Catchment-Based Hydrometeorological Forcing Data Set for North America.

• Brown Bag Seminar, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, USA, June 2000.
  Title: Initialization of the Land Surface in Seasonal-to-Interannual Predictions.

• Spring Meeting of the American Geophysical Union, Washington, DC, USA, May 2000.
  Title: A Synthetic Study of Near-Surface Soil Moisture Assimilation for North America.

• NSIPP Land Working Group Meeting Seminar, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, USA, February 2000.
  Title: Soil Moisture Assimilation in the NSIPP Land Surface Model.

• Progress Report, February 2000. (pdf 989kB)