Operational Delivery of Hydro-Meteorological Monitoring and Modeling Over the Australian Continent

IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 241-249

  King, Edward A ^a   Paget, Matthew J ^a   Briggs, Peter R ^a   Raupach, Michael R ^a   Trudinger, Cathy M ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Environmental factors; hydrology; modeling; water resources

Indexed keywords

AUSTRALIA; CLIENT-SERVER ARCHITECTURES; CONTINENTAL SCALE; DATA FORMAT; DATA USERS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS; EXTENDED FORM; INPUT DATAS; LAND SURFACE; LOG FILE; METEOROLOGICAL FIELDS; METEOROLOGICAL MONITORING; MODULARIZED; MULTIPLE MODELS; NEAR-REAL TIME; OPERATIONAL RUNS; PARAMETERIZATIONS; REMOTE SENSING DATA; ROBUST SYSTEMS; SPATIAL DATA INFRASTRUCTURE; WATER AVAILABILITY; WATER FLUX; WEB PORTAL;

CLIENT SERVER COMPUTER SYSTEMS; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; GROUNDWATER; HYDROLOGY; METADATA; REMOTE SENSING; SOIL MOISTURE;

WATER RESOURCES;

ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; HYDROMETEOROLOGY; INTERNET; LAND SURFACE; MODEL TEST; MODEL VALIDATION; MODELING; MONITORING SYSTEM; PARAMETERIZATION; REMOTE SENSING; SOIL MOISTURE; SPATIAL DATA; WATER RESOURCE;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 76249117405     PISSN: 19391404     EISSN: 21511535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTARS.2009.2031331     Document Type: Article

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