Second Meeting Report
of
the
Working Group on Future Space-based Hydrology
Missions
held
May 3-4, 2001
Potomac, MD
Report prepared by Simpson Weather Associates,
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Charlottesville, VA
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June 2001
CONTENTS
Agenda
Notes from
Meeting
Overheads of Presentations
List of Attendees
Working Group on Future Space-based
Hydrology Missions
AGENDA
May 3-4, 2001
Potomac,
MD
1. Introduction
2. Discussions with soil moisture and cold seasons Working Groups
3. Review of Notes - August 3-4, 2000 meeting4. Action Items
- Previous Meeting -
Update/Status
a) Establishment of working group web
site
b) Posting of original draft of White
Paper, reviewer comments
c) Responses to reviews of White
Paper - status
d) Development of template heading towards
proposal formulation
e) Efforts to put paper dealing with
science justification
5.
Presentations:
Water
Level Changes in a Large Amazon Lake Measured with
Spaceborne
Radar Interferometry and Altimetry -- Doug Alsdorf
Real-time
Forecasting and Rapid Post-event Assessment of
Erosional
and Depositional Flood
Damage --
Laurence Smith
Working
Group on Future Space-based Hydrology Missions --
G. Dave
Emmitt
Jeff Rothermel
Pascal
Kosuth
Balazs Fekete
The Contribution of
Satellite Radar Altimetry to the
Determination
of River Discharge and
Lake/Reservoir Stage from Space:
A
Feasibility Study for North
America -- Charles
Vorosmarty
7. Updates on ongoing research related to HydraSat
8.
Discussion of plans for field studies in support of HydraSat -
Primary
Focus for this
Meeting
9. Discussion of
opportunities for collaboration with other programs:
StratoSat,
GAINS, OOS
10. Other
11. Overview
Summary Presentation - Friday a.m. - HydrA-SAT:
A
Hydrological Applications
Satellite for Land Surface Water
Monitoring
-- G.
David Emmitt