19July Wednesday
09:00 Welcome and Meeting introduction
09:10 Welcome from Moss Landing Marine Laboratory
Session 1: Land Surface Data Assimilation and Modeling
09:15 Belair - The transition from surface observations to
space-based remote sensing with the Canadian Land Data Assimilation System (CaLDAS)
09:45 Chen - Coupled COAMPS-LIS-WRF-HYDRO costal flood application: Preliminary results
10:15 - 10:30 Break
10:30 De Rosnay - Assimilation of land surface satellite data for Numerical Weather Prediction at ECMWF
11:00 Zheng - Application of Satellite Land Measurements in Improving NCEP Numerical Weather Prediction
11:30 Fourrie - Toward a better use of Infrared radiances over land in NWP models at global and meso-scales
12:00 - 13:30 Lunch
13:30 Navari - LIS-based operational land data assimilation at USAF 557th weather wing
14:00 Pu - Near-surface weather forecasting and surface data assimilation: challenges, development and potential data needs
14:30 Humphrey - Using a long-term statistical reconstruction of GRACE water storage to evaluate land surface models
15:00-15:15 Break
Session 2:Soil Moisture
15:15 Lange - Soil moisture analysis at DWD: Present state and future developments
15:45 Pan - Attribution of seasonal soil moisture prediction uncertainty
16:15 Su - In-situ observation, remote sensing and modeling of land-atmosphere interactions on the Tibetan Plateau
16:45 Entekhabi - Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) Mission Science and Applications Update
17:30 Plenary Session Part 1 - Open Discussion
20July - Thursday
Session 3: Snow Application and Evaluation
09:00 Dong - Assimilation of the AFWA Snow Depth Product into NCEP Operational CFS/GFS System
09:30 Veyssière - Evaluation of sub-kilometric numerical simulations of C-band radar backscatter over the French Alps against Sentinel-1 observations
10:00 Wang - Impact of land cover characterization and properties on simulated albedo in the presence of snow in CLASS
10:30-10:45 Break
10:45 - 12:00 Plenary Session Part 2 - Open Discussion and Final Recommendations and Action Items
12:00 - 13:00 Lunch
Session 4: Land Remote Sensing Characterization
13:00 Vidot - The VIS/NIR BRDF atlas for RTTOV: From MODIS C5 to C6
13:30 Zhan - Why Some Satellite Surface Data Products Have Not Shown Significant Impacts on Numerical Weather Prediction Skills
14:00 Zscheischler - Satellite-based drought response characterization and vegetation-atmosphere coupling for model evaluation at the global scale
14:30 - 14:45 Break
14:45 Olioso - Simulation of land surface emissivity spectra with
the SAIL-thermique model. Evaluation and application to emissivity and surface
temperature extraction from multispectral data
15:15 Yueh - SMAP Mission Overview and Product Updates
15:45 Kerr - Overview of SMOS Land Activities
16:15 Ruston - Bias correction of radiances for the land and atmosphere
16:30 Wrap-Up and Adjourn