A two-parameter exponential function approach to simply and accurately characterize spatial regime of topographic index for land-surface parameterizations

International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 4558-4561

  Yong, Bin ^a,b   Zhang, Wanchang ^b   Liu, Chuansheng ^a,b  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Land atmosphere interaction Cumulative distribution function (CDF); Topographic index (TI); Two parameter exponential function

Indexed keywords

LAND-ATMOSPHERE INTERACTION CUMULATIVE DISTRIBUTION FUNCTION (CDF); TOPOGRAPHIC INDEX (TI); TWO-PARAMETER EXPONENTIAL FUNCTION;

CLIMATE CHANGE; DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; PARAMETERIZATION; WATERSHEDS;

TOPOGRAPHY;

EID: 70350699559     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IGARSS.2007.4423871     Document Type: Conference Paper

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