Characterizing regional uncertainty in the initial soil moisture status

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 30, Issue 9, 2003, Pages

  Berg, Aaron A ^a   Famiglietti, James S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; SOILS; VEGETATION;

SOIL MOISTURE;

GEOPHYSICS;

HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; SOIL MOISTURE; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 0042740450     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2003GL017075     Document Type: Article

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