Assessing a land surface model's improvements with GRACE estimates

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 33, Issue 7, 2006, Pages

  Niu, Guo Yue ^a   Yang, Zong Liang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; GRAVITATIONAL PROSPECTING; HYDROLOGY; LANDFORMS; SOIL TESTING;

COMMUNITY LAND MODEL; GRAVITY RECOVERY AND CLIMATE EXPERIMENT;

GEOPHYSICS;

EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; HYDROLOGICAL REGIME; LAND SURFACE; REMOTE SENSING; RIVER BASIN; SATELLITE IMAGERY;

AMAZON BASIN; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 33646847942     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005GL025555     Document Type: Article

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