Resources
Project Quad Charts
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)
NDIC Data Summary Merged v2 on GoogleDocs
HOAPS A satellite-derived global climatology of freshwater flux
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)
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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
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NASA Energy and Water cycle Study Roadmap
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Water and Energy Cycle Missions
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Water and Energy Cycle
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Research Path
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NEWS Satellite/Instrument Roadmap
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Earth Science Enterprise System Components
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