Variational assimilation of radiometric surface temperature and reference-level micrometeorology into a model of the atmospheric boundary layer and land surface

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 131, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 1272-1288

  Margulis, Steven A ^a   Entekhabi, Dara ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; EVAPORATION; METEOROLOGY; RADIOMETRY; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION;

ATMOSPHERIC BOUNDARY LAYER (ABL);

CLIMATOLOGY;

BOUNDARY LAYER; DATA ASSIMILATION; ENERGY BUDGET; MICROMETEOROLOGY; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARAMETERIZATION; SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

EID: 0043095528     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0493(2003)131<1272:VAORST>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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