Satellite Soil Moisture Data Products and Their Potential Contributions to NOAA Research and Operations

OneNOAA Science Seminars

Speaker: Xiwu “Jerry” Zhan, Physical Scientist NOAA NESDIS Center for Satellite Applications and Research 

Abstract

Soil moisture controls land surface water and energy partitioning through impacting evapotranspiration that is one of the main energy sources for the atmospheric dynamics. Soil moisture is thus consequently critical for NOAA’s numerical weather, climate and hydrological prediction operations. NOAA and other national and international space agencies have made significant investment to acquire near real time soil moisture observations from space since decades ago. This presentation will introduce why satellite soil moisture observations is important to NOAA operations, how soil moisture data products are generated from these satellite observations, and how these data products could be assimilated into NOAA numerical weather and water prediction models in order to improve NOAA weather and water predictions. Progresses and issues in these research and application areas will be discussed.

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(Xiwu “Jerry” Zhan, Physical Scientist NOAA NESDIS Center for Satellite Applications and Research )

When	Mon Mar 18, 2019 4pm – 5pm Coordinated Universal Time
Where	Greentech IV Building, 7700 Hubble Drive Greenbelt MD 20771, Conference Room S562 (map)

Satellite Soil Moisture Data Products and Their Potential Contributions to NOAA Research and Operations

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