Water Management Session: 16th Federation Meeting - Jan 4-6, 2006 Notes/Highlights
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NASA Water Management Program
Presentation by Mayra Montrose, David Toll, Kristi Arsenault, Edwin Engman, Jon Triggs
Fundamental Research
Water and energy cycle
Applied Research
Science utilization
Improve predictions (water cycle)
- Variables include: Soil moisture, snow water equivalent, surface runoff, evapotranspiration, rainfall
Take data from Earth-Sun observations and plug into Earth systems models to make predictions and observations --
- Groundwater = GRACE
- Precipitation = TRMM/GPM
- TRMM will lead to GPM for Global precipitation
- Soil Moisture = Hydros (cancelled, hopefully be back in 07)
- We plan to address soil moisture intensively - Hyrdos provides soil moisture and freeze/thaw info
- Snow
- Surface water
- Snow-water equivalent measured by AMSR-E
--Sensors in concept CLPP mission --Pathfind proposed mission provides reservoir height and discharge estimates (altimetry, laser, parallax interferometer approach are the 3 methods)