Closing the terrestrial water budget from satellite remote sensing

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 36, Issue 7, 2009, Pages

  Sheffield, Justin ^a   Ferguson, Craig R ^a   Troy, Tara J ^a   Wood, Eric F ^a   McCabe, Matthew F ^b  

^a Princeton University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AQUA SATELLITE DATA; IN-PROCESS; INPUT DATA; MISSISSIPPI RIVER BASIN; PENMAN-MONTEITH; SATELLITE REMOTE SENSING; SYSTEMATIC BIAS; TERRESTRIAL WATER STORAGE; WATER BALANCE; WATER BUDGET; WATER CYCLE;

GEODETIC SATELLITES; NASA; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE OBSERVATORIES; WATER SUPPLY;

BUDGET CONTROL;

ALGORITHM; ERROR CORRECTION; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; FLOW MEASUREMENT; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE DATA; SATELLITE IMAGERY; STREAMFLOW; SUMMER; TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEM; WATER BUDGET; WATER STORAGE;

MISSISSIPPI BASIN; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 67549115197     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009GL037338     Document Type: Article

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