Development of a coupled land-atmosphere satellite data assimilation system for improved local atmospheric simulations

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 112, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 720-734

  Boussetta, Souhail ^a   Koike, Toshio ^a   Yang, Kun ^a   Graf, Tobias ^a   Pathmathevan, Mahadevan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Data assimilation; Downscaling; Land surface scheme; Regional model; Remote sensing

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MICROWAVES; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; REMOTE SENSING; SIMULATED ANNEALING; SOILS;

DATA ASSIMILATION; LAND DATA ASSIMILATION SYSTEM (LDAS);

DATA ACQUISITION;

ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE; CLOUD; DATA ASSIMILATION; LAND SURFACE; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE DATA;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

EID: 39749148276     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2007.06.002     Document Type: Article

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