NASA Energy and Water Cycle Study

Project Abstracts

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DISCOVERY
Proposal # PI Institution Proposal Title (link to pdf file)
D020 J.Famiglietti UCI A Study of the First Global Measurements of the Water Cycle
D029 A. Betts AR Understanding and Evaluating the Coupling of Land-surface, Boundary Layer, Cloud and Radiative Processes in the Global Water and Energy Cycle
D044 J. Roads UCSD Global Water and Energy Budget Studies
D114 W. Olson GSFC Calibration and Analysis of Global Latent Heating Estimates Using Passive and Active Microwave Sensor Data
D118 R. Leung BPNL Aerosol Effects on Cold Season Orographic Precipitation and Water Resources
P226 R. Koster GSFC Land-Atmosphere Coupling Strength and Soil Moisture Initialization Uncertainty on Subseasonal Rainfall and Temperature Prediction
D423 S. Schubert GSFC On the Causes and Predictability of Multi-Year North American Droughts with Applications to Drought Monitoring and Water Management
D471 S. Denning CSU A Global Multiscale Vegetation Modeling System for NEWS


PRODUCT
Proposal # PI Institution Proposal Title (link to pdf file)
P053 F. Wentz RSS A Hydrologically-Consistent Multi-Satellite Climatology of Evaporation, Precipitation, and Water Vapor Transport Over the Oceans
P133 T. Liu JPL Oceanic Influence on Global Hydrologic Cycle
P134 B. Soden U. Miami The Sensitivity of the Global Water and Energy Cycles: An Assessment of Models and Observations
P143 M. Bosilovich GSFC Evaluation of NASA's Global Water Cycle Data: Interannual Variability, Inter-decadal Changes and Trends
P147 T. L'Ecuyer CSU New Satellite Energy Balance and Water Cycle Products for the Study of Interactions between Atmospheric Hydrology and the Earth's Radiation Budget
P152 R. Adler GSFC Global Precipitation Analysis for Climate and Weather Studies
P170 E. Fetzer JPL A Merged Atmospheric Water Data Set from the A-Train
P179 B. Wielicki Langley An A-Train Integrated Aerosol, Cloud, and Radiation Data Product
P223 J. Curry GT Global Analysis of Ocean Surface Fluxes of Heat and Freshwater: Satellite Products, NWP Analyses, and CMIP Simulations
P265 B. Hornbuckle ISU A Prototype Remote Sensing Validation Site: Towards a Multi-Variable Approach to Validating and Scaling Remotely-Sensed Observations of the Water Cycle
P433 S. Sorooshian UCA Irvine The Challenges of Utilizing Satellite Precipitation Data for Hydrologic Application
P435 C. Peters-Lidard GSFC NASA Model and Observation Products for the Study of Land Atmosphere Coupling and its Impact on Water and Energy Ccycles.
D077 W.-K. Tao GSFC Use of a coupled, global cloud-scale and land surface modeling system to study the impact of land surface processes on energy and water cycles.
P448 M. Rodell GSFC Integration of Energy and Water Cycle Research Products in a Global Land Surface Modeling and Assimilation System
P008 R. Reichle GSFC Enabling improved prediction of the global water and energy cycle through assimilation of land surface hydrological observations from NASA satellites into the NASA GMAO seasonal forecasting and weather prediction system
D458 M. Rodell GSFC Optical Merging of AMSR-E Snow Water Equivalent and MODIS Snow Cover Observations through Data Assimilation