Ana P. Barros

Conference International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium IGARSS · January 1, 2023 A physical-statistical framework to estimate Snow Water Equivalent (SWE) and Snow depth (SD) from SAR measurements was implemented and applied to SnowSAR flight-line data collected during the SnowEx'2017 field campaign in Grand Mesa, Colorado, USA and aver ... Full text Cite

Indirect Estimation of Vegetation Contribution to Microwave Backscatter Via Triple-Frequency SAR Data

Conference International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium IGARSS · January 1, 2023 A coupled snow physics-radiative transfer forward-inversion modeling system was applied over snow-covered terrain in Grand Mesa and the Senator Beck Basin, Colorado, USA to estimate vegetation contributions to the total backscatter from the ground-snow-veg ... Full text Cite

High-Resolution Forward Modeling of Sentinel-1 Observations at High Altitude in Complex Topography

Conference International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium IGARSS · January 1, 2022 Sentinel-1 C-band SAR observations over the high-altitude Senator Beck Basin in Colorado show spatial patterns strongly modulated by local topography. An uncalibrated coupled snow hydrology-radiative transfer model driven by downscaled atmospheric reanalys ... Full text Cite

Data Analysis and SWE Retrieval of Airborne SAR Data AT X Band and KU Bands

Conference International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium IGARSS · January 1, 2022 Snow water equivalent (SWE) is an important characteristic of a terrestrial hydrological cycle that needs to be retrieved in any global snow satellite mission. Many retrieval algorithms have been proposed based on microwave backscattering of snow packs. An ... Full text Cite

Three-Dimensional Planetary Boundary Layer Parameterization for High-Resolution Mesoscale Simulations

Conference Journal of Physics Conference Series · March 3, 2020 Wind energy applications including wind resource assessment, wind power forecasting, and wind plant optimization require high-resolution mesoscale simulations. High resolution mesoscale simulations are essential for accurate characterization of atmospheric ... Full text Cite

Evaluation of seasonal water budget components over the major drainage basins of north america using an ensemble-based land surface model approach

Conference International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium IGARSS · January 1, 2019 An ensemble of land surface models and forcing data was developed to assess variability in SWE estimation over North America. In this study, the ensemble output was used to assess how SWE uncertainty impacts streamflow estimation. The analysis was conducte ... Full text Cite

High-resolution mapping and scaling behavior of passive L-band measurements and soil moisture retrieval in complex terrain

Conference Progress in Electromagnetics Research Symposium · May 22, 2017 The Integrated Precipitation and Hydrology Experiment 2014 [1] was a ground-validation field campaign conducted in the Southern Appalachian Mountains (SAM) and adjacent Piedmont region May-June of 2014 in support of the Global Precipitation Measurement Mis ... Full text Cite

Adaptive risk management for future climate/weather extremes

Conference International Conference on Sustainable Infrastructure 2017 Technology Proceedings of the International Conference on Sustainable Infrastructure 2017 · January 1, 2017 The Committee on Adaptation to a Changing Climate (CACC) of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) has the purpose to identify and communicate the technical requirements and civil engineering challenges for adaptation to climate change. In 2015, AS ... Full text Cite