Kyle Hilburn and Peter Marinescu presented their research on comparisons of NOAA modeled soil moisture estimates to in situ observations and the development of new high-resolution soil moisture product using machine learning and GOES ABI data. (POC: K. Kilburn, P. Marinescu, Kyle.Hilburn@colostate.edu, Peter.Marinescu@colostate.edu; Funding: NOAA HPCC Information Technology Incubator)
The Regional and Mesoscale Meteorology Branch (RAMMB) of NOAA/NESDIS conducts research on the use of satellite data to improve analysis, forecasts and warnings for regional and mesoscale meteorological events. RAMMB is co-located with the Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere (CIRA) at Colorado State University in Fort Collins, CO.