Using enhanced GRACE water storage data to improve drought detection by the U.S. and North American Drought Monitors

Rasmus Houborg; Matthew Rodell; Jay Lawrimore; Bailing Li; Rolf Reichle; Richard Heim; Matthew Rosencrans; Rich Tinker; James S. Famiglietti; Mark Svoboda; Brian Wardlow; Benjamin F. Zaitchik

doi:10.1109/IGARSS.2010.5654237

Using enhanced GRACE water storage data to improve drought detection by the U.S. and North American Drought Monitors

Rasmus Houborg^*, Matthew Rodell, Jay Lawrimore, Bailing Li, Rolf Reichle, Richard Heim, Matthew Rosencrans, Rich Tinker, James S. Famiglietti, Mark Svoboda, Brian Wardlow, Benjamin F. Zaitchik

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Abstract

NASA's Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) satellites measure time variations of the Earth's gravity field enabling reliable detection of spatio-temporal variations in total terrestrial water storage (TWS), including groundwater. The U.S. and North American Drought Monitors rely heavily on precipitation indices and do not currently incorporate systematic observations of deep soil moisture and groundwater storage conditions. Thus GRACE has great potential to improve the Drought Monitors by filling this observational gap. GRACE TWS data were assimilating into the Catchment Land Surface Model using an ensemble Kalman smoother enabling spatial and temporal downscaling and vertical decomposition into soil moisture and groundwater components. The Drought Monitors combine several short- and long-term drought indicators expressed in percentiles as a reference to their historical frequency of occurrence. To be consistent, we generated a climatology of estimated soil moisture and ground water based on a 60-year Catchment model simulation, which was used to convert seven years of GRACE assimilated fields into drought indicator percentiles. At this stage we provide a preliminary evaluation of the GRACE assimilated moisture and indicator fields.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	2010 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, IGARSS 2010
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages	710-713
Number of pages	4
ISBN (Print)	9781424495658, 9781424495665
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/IGARSS.2010.5654237
State	Published - 2010
Externally published	Yes
Event	2010 30th IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, IGARSS 2010 - Honolulu, HI, United States Duration: Jul 25 2010 → Jul 30 2010

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Name	International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)

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Other	2010 30th IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, IGARSS 2010
Country/Territory	United States
City	Honolulu, HI
Period	07/25/10 → 07/30/10

Keywords

Data assimilation
Drought indicators
Drought monitor
GRACE
Terrestrial water storage

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Computer Science Applications
General Earth and Planetary Sciences

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Houborg, R., Rodell, M., Lawrimore, J., Li, B., Reichle, R., Heim, R., Rosencrans, M., Tinker, R., Famiglietti, J. S., Svoboda, M., Wardlow, B., & Zaitchik, B. F. (2010). Using enhanced GRACE water storage data to improve drought detection by the U.S. and North American Drought Monitors. In 2010 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, IGARSS 2010 (pp. 710-713). Article 5654237 (International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.. https://doi.org/10.1109/IGARSS.2010.5654237

Houborg, Rasmus ; Rodell, Matthew ; Lawrimore, Jay et al. / Using enhanced GRACE water storage data to improve drought detection by the U.S. and North American Drought Monitors. 2010 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, IGARSS 2010. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2010. pp. 710-713 (International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)).

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