Evaluation of soil moisture in the NCEP-NCAR and NCEP-DOE global reanalyses

Journal of Hydrometeorology

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 391-408

  Lu, Cheng Hsuan ^a,b   Kanamitsu, Masao ^c   Roads, John O ^c   Ebisuzaki, Wesley ^b   Mitchell, Kenneth E ^b   Lohmann, Dag ^b  

^a RS Information Systems Inc   (United States)

^b CLIMATE PREDICTION CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FORECASTING METHOD; HYDROMETEOROLOGY; SOIL MOISTURE; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 26444533549     PISSN: 1525755X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JHM427.1     Document Type: Article

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