Xiwu Jerry Zhan

Our projects aim at providing reliable, timely global land surface soil moisture and vegetation dynamics observations for applications to numerical weather/climate/hydrological predictions, agricultural forecasts and other relevant societal activities. Our primary observation approach is microwave satellite remote sensing combined with optical remotely sensed information. Main research activities include: develop, validate and apply retrieval algorithms for land surface soil moisture and vegetation dynamics monitoring, develop and refine land surface models for numerical weather/climate/hydrological forecasts and methodology for assimilating the satellite observations into the models toward their more accurate forecasts.