Estimation of surface heat flux and an index of soil moisture using adjoint-state surface energy balance

Water Resources Research

Volumn 35, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 3115-3125

  Castelli, Fabio ^a   Entekhabi, Dara ^b   Caporali, Enrica ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^b Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; ERROR ANALYSIS; EVAPORATION; HEAT FLUX; INTERFACIAL ENERGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOISTURE;

LATENT HEAT; ROOT-MEAN-SQUARE (RMS) ERROR; SURFACE ENERGY BALANCE EQUATION;

SOILS;

AIR-SOIL INTERACTION; ENERGY BALANCE; EVAPORATION; HEAT FLUX; SOIL MOISTURE;

EID: 0032823165     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999WR900140     Document Type: Article

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