Retrieving snow mass from GRACE terrestrial water storage change with a land surface model

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 34, Issue 15, 2007, Pages

  Niu, Guo Yue ^a   Seo, Ki Weon ^b   Yang, Zong Liang ^a   Wilson, Clark ^a   Su, Hua ^a   Chen, Jianli ^c   Rodell, Matthew ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

^d NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GRAVITATION; GROUNDWATER; HYDROLOGY; SNOW;

RIVER BASIN; SNOW MASS; SNOW WATER EQUIVALENT; WATER STORAGE;

GEOPHYSICS;

ARCTIC ENVIRONMENT; BOREAL FOREST; DATA SET; FOREST CANOPY; LAND SURFACE; SATELLITE DATA; SNOW; WATER STORAGE;

EID: 34948849799     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007GL030413     Document Type: Article

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