Correcting for forecast bias in soil moisture assimilation with the ensemble Kalman filter

Water Resources Research

Volumn 43, Issue 9, 2007, Pages

  De Lannoy, Gabriëlle J M ^a   Reichle, Rolf H ^b,c   Houser, Paul R ^d   Pauwels, Valentijn R N ^a   Verhoest, Niko E C ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

^d GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FORECASTING; KALMAN FILTERS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SET THEORY;

DATA ASSIMILATION; LAND SURFACE MODELS;

SOIL MOISTURE;

FORECASTING; KALMAN FILTERS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SET THEORY; SOIL MOISTURE;

AGRICULTURAL LAND; COVARIANCE ANALYSIS; DATA ASSIMILATION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; ERROR ANALYSIS; ERROR CORRECTION; ESTIMATION METHOD; FORECASTING METHOD; KALMAN FILTER; MODEL VALIDATION; SOIL MOISTURE; WATER BUDGET;

EID: 35848940507     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006WR005449     Document Type: Article

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