Evaluation of Special Sensor Microwave/Imager satellite data for regional soil moisture estimation over the Red River basin

Journal of Applied Meteorology

Volumn 36, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 1309-1328

  Lakshmi, Venkataraman ^a,b   Wood, Eric F ^a   Choudhury, Bhaskar J ^a,b  

^a Princeton University   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SOIL MOISTURE; SSM/I;

USA, RED RIVER;

EID: 0031395116     PISSN: 08948763     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0450(1997)036<1309:EOSSMI>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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