Upscaling of land-surface parameters through inverse stochastic SVAT-Modelling

Boundary-Layer Meteorology

Volumn 129, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 137-158

  Intsiful, Joseph ^a,b   Kunstmann, Harald ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

^c KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Effective parameters; Monte Carlo simulation; SVAT modelling; Upscaling

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE EMISSION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; FORESTRY; GEOLOGIC MODELS; SOLAR RADIATION; STOCHASTIC PROGRAMMING; VAPOR PRESSURE;

EFFECTIVE PARAMETERS; MONTE CARLO SIMULATION; SVAT MODELLING; UPSCALING;

PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

ALBEDO; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ESTIMATION METHOD; LAND SURFACE; MAP; MODELING; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; STOCHASTICITY; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; UPSCALING;

EID: 53849128831     PISSN: 00068314     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10546-008-9303-0     Document Type: Article

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