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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><b><span
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Seminar</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;" align="right"><b><span
style="font-size: 14pt;">Title:</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><b><span style="font-size: 20pt;">Soil
Moisture Active Passive </span></b><st1:City><st1:place><b><span
style="font-size: 20pt;">Mission</span></b></st1:place></st1:City><b><span
style="font-size: 20pt;"> (SMAP)</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;" align="right"><b><span
style="font-size: 14pt;">Speaker:</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><b><span style="font-size: 16pt;">Dara
Entekhabi<br>
MIT</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;" align="right"><b><span
style="font-size: 14pt;">Date, Time & Place:</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><st1:date year="2009" day="23"
month="11"><b><span style="font-size: 16pt;">Monday, November 23, 2009</span></b></st1:date><b><span
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</span></b><st1:time minute="0" hour="14">2:00 – 3:00 P.M.</st1:time><br>
World Weather Building, <b><span style="color: red;">Room 707</span></b>,
<st1:address><st1:Street>5200 Auth Road</st1:Street>, <st1:City>Camp
Springs</st1:City>, <st1:State>MD</st1:State> <st1:PostalCode>20746</st1:PostalCode></st1:address><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;" align="right"><b><span
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">The SMAP
mission is one of the first satellites being developed by NASA in
response to the National Research Council’s Decadal Survey. SMAP will
make global measurements of surface soil moisture its freeze/thaw
state. The measurements should enable science and applications users
to: 1) Understand processes that link the terrestrial water, energy and
carbon cycles, 2) Estimate global water and energy fluxes at the land
surface, 3) Quantify net carbon flux in boreal landscapes, 4) Enhance
weather and climate forecast skill, 5) Develop improved flood
prediction and drought monitoring capability. The SMAP mission concept
would utilize L-band radar and radiometry. The SMAP project also
includes model value-added data assimilation products on deeper profile
soil moisture (rootzone) and net ecosystem exchange of carbon. In this
presentation a description of the data assimilation product and a few
representative soil moisture data-denial and control experiments with
atmospheric models will be presented.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><b>Video:</b> 1. <span
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target="_blank">JCSDA Seminar</a><br>
2. Enter your name and email address.</span><br>
2. Enter your name and email address. <br>
3. Enter the meeting password: JCSDAseminar2009 <br>
4. Click "Join Now". <br>
5. Follow the instructions that appear on your screen.<span
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</span><b>Audio: </b><st1:country-region><st1:place>USA</st1:place></st1:country-region>
participants: 1-866-715-2479, Passcode: 9457557<br>
International: 1-517-345-5260<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: right;" align="right"><b><span
style="font-size: 14pt;">Contact:</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="">George Ohring, <a
href="mailto:George.Ohring@noaa.gov">George.Ohring@noaa.gov</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="">Available at <a
href="http://www.jcsda.noaa.gov/JCSDASeminars.php">http://www.jcsda.noaa.gov/JCSDASeminars.php</a>
the day before the talk.<o:p></o:p></p>
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