Estimating the soil moisture profile by assimilating near-surface observations with the ensemble Kalman Filter (EnKF)

Advances in Atmospheric Sciences

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 936-945

  Zhang, Shuwen ^a,b   Li, Haorui ^b   Zhang, Weidong ^a   Qiu, Chongjian ^a,b   Li, Xin ^c  

^a LANZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Key Laboratory of Arid Climatic Change and Reducing Disaster of Gansu Province   (China)

^c Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

Author keywords

Ensemble Kalman filter; Insertion; Land data assimilation; Soil moisture

Indexed keywords

EID: 28844491855     PISSN: 02561530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/bf02918692     Document Type: Article

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