Assimilation of meteorological and remote sensing data for snowmelt runoff forecasting

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 112, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1408-1420

  Nagler, Thomas ^a   Rott, Helmut ^a,b   Malcher, Petra ^a   Müller, Florian ^a  

^a ENVEO IT GMBH   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

Author keywords

Data assimilation; Optical sensors; Runoff forecasting; SAR; Snow cover mapping; Snowmelt runoff modelling

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; METEOROLOGY; OPTICAL SENSORS; REMOTE SENSING; RUNOFF; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTIONS; OPTICAL SATELLITE IMAGES; SNOW COVER PRODUCTS; SNOWMELT RUNOFF FORECASTING;

SNOW;

DATA ASSIMILATION; DATA SET; DOWNSCALING; DRAINAGE BASIN; ENVISAT-1; FORECASTING METHOD; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; HYDROMETEOROLOGY; MAPPING METHOD; MODIS; NUMERICAL METHOD; OPTICAL INSTRUMENT; REMOTE SENSING; RUNOFF; SATELLITE DATA; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SNOW COVER; SNOWMELT; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; WATER MANAGEMENT;

EID: 40649097263     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2007.07.006     Document Type: Article

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