Assessment of implementing satellite-derived land cover data in the eta model

Weather and Forecasting

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 404-416

  Kurkowski, Nicole P ^a   Stensrud, David J ^a   Baldwin, Michael E ^b  

^a NATIONAL SEVERE STORMS LABORATORY   (United States)

^b CoopInst Mesoscale Meteorol Stds ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; RADIOMETERS; VEGETATION; WEATHER SATELLITES;

LAND SURFACE MODELING;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

AVHRR; CLIMATE MODELING; DATA ASSIMILATION; LAND COVER; NDVI; SATELLITE IMAGERY;

EID: 0041620626     PISSN: 08828156     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0434(2003)18<404:AOISDL>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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