A case study on variational soil moisture analysis from atmospheric observations

Journal of Hydrology

Volumn 212-213, Issue 1-4, 1998, Pages 95-108

  Callies, Ulrich ^a   Rhodin, Andreas ^a   Eppel, Dieter P ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Atmospheric modeling; Data assimilation; Soil moisture; Weather forecast

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; BOUNDARY LAYERS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOISTURE; SOILS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

BOUNDARY LAYER MODEL;

HYDROLOGY;

AIR-SOIL INTERACTION; BOUNDARY LAYER; MODELING; SOIL MOISTURE; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 0032418659     PISSN: 00221694     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-1694(98)00204-2     Document Type: Article

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