NASA Energy and Water Cycle Study

Resources

Project Quad Charts

NEWS Data Table

View the NEWS Data Table

NEWS Intergration Workshop: May 2008

PI Meeting archives

September 2007: 3rd PI meeting archive

September 2005: 1st PI meeting archive

Links/News Articles

"Residual Diagnosis of Diabatic Heating from ERA-40 and NCEP REanalyses: Intercomparisons with TRMM" (Steven C. Chan & Nigam, Sumant) (Submitted to the Journal of Climate on January 4: accepted June 3, 2008)

"How Much More Rain Will Global Warming Bring"? (Frank J. Wentz, Lucrezia Ricciardulli, Kyle Hilburn, Carl Mears)

2007 NEWS Team Highlights

NDIC Data Summary Merged v2 on GoogleDocs

HOAPS A satellite-derived global climatology of freshwater flux

NEWS Project Abstracts

GLDAS chosen as GEWEX Data Product (PDF, 109KB, opens in a new window)

The National Academies' Water Information Center (external link, opens in a new window)
The purpose of this site is to assist the work of water scientists, engineers, managers, policymakers, and students throughout the world. It provides access to over 100 peer-reviewed reports from the National Academies on water-related issues, such as:

  • Water Supply and Sanitation
  • Water and Soil Remediation
  • Hydrologic Hazards
  • Water Quality in the Natural Environment
  • River Basin Systems Management
  • Environmental Assessment, Management, and Restoration
  • Water Science and Research

All of the reports can be read for free on-line, and summaries are freely downloadable as PDF files. (Completely free for developing countries.)

Warmer Seas, Wetter Air Make Harder Rains as Greenhouse Gases Build (external link, opens in a new window)

Observational and Modeling Requirements for Predicting Drought on Seasonal to Decadal Time Scales (PDF, 228 KB, opens in a new window)

GEWEX NEWS Article
Jared Entin and Paul Houser prepared a short GEWEX article describing the NEWS program and vision, (PDF, 192 KB, opens in a new window)

PowerPoint icon Presentations

AGU

2006

Modification of Soil Temperature and Moisture Budgets by Snow Processes (92K PDF)
Ensemble Kalman Filtering of Soil Moisture Observations With Model Bias Correction (1.6MB PDF)
A Generic, Interoperable, Hydrologic Data Assimilation Framework using the Land Information System (389K PDF)
Recent Results in Land Surface Data Assimilation (2.5MB PDF)
The Water Cycle Solutions Network (1.8MB PDF)

Misc.


GPM_meeting_NEWS_presentation_11_07_06.pdf (3.1 MB)
NEWS_roadmap2.5.ppt (660 KB)
WECFAR_052704_0000_agenda.doc (24 KB)
WECFAR_052704_0845_Entin_NEWS_overview.ppt (1.0 MB)
WECFAR_052704_0905_Houser_Overview.ppt (66.0 MB)
WECFAR_052704_1000_Jasinski_NEWS_overview.ppt (23.5 MB)
WECFAR_052704_1015_Njoku_NEWS_observations.ppt (2.0 MB)
WECFAR_052704_1035_Lin_NEWS_analysis.ppt (2.8 MB)
WECFAR_052704_1050_LaPenta_NEWS_modeling.ppt (7.9 MB)
WECFAR_052704_1105_Toll_NEWS_apps.ppt (3.3 MB)
WECFAR_052704_1120_Entin_NEWS_summary.ppt (992 KB)
WECFAR_052704_1300_Entin_NEWS_links.ppt (1.0 MB)
WECFAR_052704_1315_Ghuman_NEWS_tech.ppt (1.1 MB)
WECFAR_052704_1330_Anderson_Clouds.ppt (1.3 MB)
WECFAR_052704_1400_LinWielicki_CERES.ppt (2.2 MB)
WECFAR_052704_1415_Rodell_GRACE.ppt (6.6 MB)
WECFAR_052704_1430_Njoku_RFI.ppt (1.6 MB)
WECFAR_052704_1445_Peters-Lidard_Precip.ppt (1.6 MB)
WECFAR_052704_1500_Adler_Precip.ppt (664 KB)


Multimedia

Water Cycle Movie

NEWS Energy and Watercycle Roadmap thumbnail image
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NEWS Energy and Watercycle 
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NASA Energy and Water cycle Study Roadmap

NEWS Energy and Watercycle Roadmap thumbnail image

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Water and Energy Cycle Missions

Water and Energy Cycle Missions thumbnail image

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Water and Energy Cycle

Water and Energy Cycle Missions thumbnail image

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Research Path

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NEWS Satellite/Instrument Roadmap

NEWS Satellite/Instrument Roadmap thumbnail image

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Earth Science Enterprise System Components

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