NPOESS soil moisture satellite data assimilation: Progress using WindSat data

Author

Jones, Andrew S. ; Combs, Cynthia L. ; Lakhankar, Tarendra ; Longmore, Scott ; Haar, Thomas H Vonder ; McWilliams, Gary ; Mungiole, Michael ; Mason, George

Author_Institution

Center for Geosciences/Atmos. Res., Fort Collins

fYear

2007

fDate

23-28 July 2007

Firstpage

1185

Lastpage

1187

Abstract

In this work, we have developed a four-dimensional coupled atmospheric/land data assimilation framework using the Regional Atmospheric Modeling Data Assimilation System (RAMDAS) to retrieve deep soil moisture profiles. Passive microwave data from CORIOLIS WindSat are used as a surrogate for future National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS) microwave sensors. Current efforts are focused on the use of the system for a case study occurring in September 2003.

Keywords

artificial satellites; data assimilation; microwave detectors; moisture; soil; AD 2003 09; CORIOLIS satellite; NPOESS data; RAMDAS; WindSat data; microwave sensors; passive microwave data from; regional atmospheric modeling data assimilation system; satellite data assimilation; soil moisture; Atmospheric modeling; Data assimilation; Data engineering; Geology; Information retrieval; Laboratories; Land surface; Satellites; Soil moisture; System testing; data assimilation; passive microwave; soil moisture;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2007. IGARSS 2007. IEEE International

Conference_Location

Barcelona

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-1211-2

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-1212-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.2007.4423016

Filename

4423016