Bias reduction in short records of satellite soil moisture

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 31, Issue 19, 2004, Pages

  Reichle, R H ^a,b   Koster, R D ^a  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

1866 Hydrology: Soil moisture; 3322 Meteorology and Atmospheric Dynamics: Land atmosphere interactions; 3337 Meteorology and Atmospheric Dynamics: Numerical modeling and data assimilation; 3360 Meteorology and Atmospheric Dynamics: Remote sensing

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; CLIMATE CHANGE; DATA ACQUISITION; FUNCTIONS; METEOROLOGY; SOILS; WEATHER SATELLITES;

GROUND MEASUREMENTS; LAND MODEL; SATELLITE SOIL MOISTURE; SEASONAL CYCLES;

MOISTURE;

MITIGATION; SAMPLING BIAS; SATELLITE DATA; SOIL MOISTURE;

EID: 11044238967     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004GL020938     Document Type: Article

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