Climate model biases in seasonally of continental water storage revealed by satellite gravimetry

Water Resources Research

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2006, Pages

  Swenson, Sean Claude ^a   Milly, P C D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GRAVIMETRIC ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); REMOTE SENSING; STORAGE (MATERIALS); WEATHER SATELLITES;

CLIMATE MODELS; SATELLITE GRAVIMETRY; SEASONAL CYCLE; SYSTEMATIC MODELS;

CLIMATOLOGY;

CLIMATOLOGY; GRAVIMETRIC ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); REMOTE SENSING; STORAGE (MATERIALS); WEATHER SATELLITES;

GRAVIMETRY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METEOROLOGY; PRECIPITATION; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITES; STORAGE;

EID: 33646535430     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005WR004628     Document Type: Article

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