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Towards Remote Sensing for Hydrologic Prediction in Ungauged Basins. Jeffrey Walker Dept of Civil and Env Engg, University of Melbourne, Australia http://www.civenv.unimelb.edu.au/~jwalker. The Challenge …. In-situ observations: cover almost nothing but most of the time
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Towards Remote Sensing for Hydrologic Prediction in Ungauged Basins Jeffrey Walker Dept of Civil and Env Engg, University of Melbourne, Australia http://www.civenv.unimelb.edu.au/~jwalker
The Challenge …. • In-situ observations: cover almost nothing but most of the time • Aircraft observations: cover almost everything but hardly ever • Satellite observations: cover everythingall of the time but not what we want • Modelling: pretends to cover everythingall of the time
Hydrologic Prediction • Fluxes • Evapotranspiration • Sensible Heat Flux • Runoff • Drainage • Forcing • Precipitation • Radiation • Wind • Humidity • Air Temperature RO= P - ET –SM –GW -SWE • Parameters • Vegetation Properties • Topography • Soil Properties • States • Soil Moisture • Groundwater • Snow met. inputs model parameters and physics prediction
Hydrologic Remote Sending Radiation Soil Moisture Vegetation Precipitation Snow ET
Precipitation: GOES, TRMM, SSM/I NRL 0.25o 6hr IR NCEP 40km 3hr NWP U of Az 0.25o 1hr IR-neural net NRL 0.25o 6hr Microwave NCEP 4km 1hr Gage/Radar CPC 0.25o 24hr Gauge Paul Houser
Shortwave down 1 March 2003, W/m2 Radiation: GOES
Model Parameters: LandSAT, MODIS Leaf Area Index Greenness Elevation
Effect of Model Parameters Grayson, Western and Walker (2005)
Evapotranspiration: Landsat, MODIS Savige, Western and Walker (2005)
Evapotranspiration: Landsat, MODIS Sensible Heat Latent Heat Soil Temperature Soil Moisture observations model Pipunic, Walker and Western (2005)
Soil Moisture: AMSR, SMOS, Hydros Walker et al. (2003) and Hemakumura, Kalma, Walker and Willgoose (2005)
NDVI Data Walker et al (2003)
Terrestrial Water Storage: GRACE Gravity Anomalie (mGal)
Terrestrial Water Storage: GRACE Truth and Observations Ellett, Walker and Western (2005)
Snow Cover: MODIS Rodell and Houser (2004)
Snow Water Equivalent: AMSR Dong, Walker and Houser (2005)
Streamflow: TOPEX/POSEIDON Ruediger, Walker, Kalma, Willgoose and Houser (2004)
www.civenv.unimelb.edu.au/~jwalker/data/nafe Nov 2005 Nov 2006 Field Experiments