| WE3.T03: Recent Advances in Land Surface Data Assimilation | 
   | Session Type: Oral | 
   | Time: Wednesday, July 24, 13:30 - 15:10 | 
   | Location: Room 112 | 
   | Session Chairs: Valentijn Pauwels, Monash University and Alexander Loew, Max Planck Institute for Meteorology | 
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   | WE3.T03.1: ASSIMILATION OF SATELLITE SOIL MOISTURE DATA INTO RAINFALL-RUNOFF MODELING FOR SEVERAL CATCHMENTS WORLDWIDE | 
  | Luca Brocca;  National Research Council | 
| Tommaso Moramarco;  National Research Council | 
| Wouter Dorigo;  Vienna University of Technology | 
| Wolfgang Wagner;  Vienna University of Technology | 
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   | WE3.T03.2: OPERATIONAL DATA ASSIMILATION FOR IMPROVING HYDROLOGIC, HYDRODYNAMIC AND WATER QUALITY FORECASTING USING OPEN TOOLS | 
  | Albrecht Weerts;  Deltares | 
| Martin Verlaan;  Deltares | 
| Ghada El Serafy;  Deltares | 
| Stef Hummel;  Deltares | 
| Julius Sumihar;  Deltares | 
| Arno Kockx;  Tessella | 
| Nils van Velzen;  VORtech | 
| Werner Kramer;  VORtech | 
| Sibren Loos;  Deltares | 
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   | WE3.T03.3: ASSIMILATION OF SMOS DATA FOR IMPROVING SURFACE WATER MANAGEMENT | 
  | Hans Lievens;  Ghent University | 
| Ahmad Al Bitar;  Centre d'Études Spatiales de la BIOsphère | 
| François Cabot;  Centre d'Études Spatiales de la BIOsphère | 
| Gabrielle De Lannoy;  NASA Goddard Space Flight Center | 
| Gift Dumedah;  Monash University | 
| Harrie-Jan Hendricks-Franssen;  Forschungszentrum Juelich | 
| Yann H. Kerr;  Centre d'Études Spatiales de la BIOsphère | 
| Sat-Kumar Tomer;  Centre d'Études Spatiales de la BIOsphère | 
| Olivier Merlin;  Centre d'Études Spatiales de la BIOsphère | 
| Ming Pan;  Princeton University | 
| Joshua Roundy;  Princeton University | 
| Alok Sahoo;  Princeton University | 
| Martinus Johannes van den Berg;  Ghent University | 
| Harry Vereecken;  Forschungszentrum Juelich | 
| Niko Verhoest;  Ghent University | 
| Jeffrey P. Walker;  Monash University | 
| Eric Wood;  Princeton University | 
| Valentijn Pauwels;  Monash University | 
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   | WE3.T03.4: APPLICATION OF THE AUTO-TUNED LAND ASSIMILATION SYSTEM (ATLAS) TO ASCAT AND SMOS SOIL MOISTURE RETRIEVAL PRODUCTS | 
  | Wade Crow;  USDA ARS Hydrology and Remote Sensing Laboratory | 
| Tugrul Yilmaz;  SSAI/USDA Hydrology and Remote Sensing Laboratory | 
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   | WE3.T03.5: LAND SURFACE TEMPERATURE RETRIEVAL USING HJ-1B/IRS DATA AND ANALYSIS OF ITS EFFECT | 
  | Sheng Zheng;  State Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing Science, Jointly Sponsored by the Institute of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth of CAS and Beijing Normal University | 
| Chunxiang Cao;  State Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing Science, Jointly Sponsored by the Institute of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth of CAS and Beijing Normal University | 
| Mengya Wang;  State Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing Science, Jointly Sponsored by the Institute of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth of CAS and Beijing Normal University; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences | 
| Min Xu;  State Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing Science, Jointly Sponsored by the Institute of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth of CAS and Beijing Normal University | 
| Shilei Lu;  Division of Ecological Environment, Department of Development Planning and Assets Management, State Forestry Administration | 
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