Soil-moisture nudging experiments with a single-column version of the ECMWF model

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 125, Issue 557, 1999, Pages 1879-1902

  Hu, Yunchun ^b   Gao, Xiaogang ^b   Shuttleworth, W James ^a   Gupta, Hoshin ^b   Mahfouf, Jean Francois ^b   Viterbo, Pedro ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Data assimilation; Land surface processes; Medium range forecasting

Indexed keywords

DATA ASSIMILATION; MODELING; SOIL MOISTURE; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 0032741029     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1256/smsqj.55718     Document Type: Article

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