Quantifying uncertainty in a remote sensing-based estimate of evapotranspiration over continental USA

International Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 31, Issue 14, 2010, Pages 3821-3865

  Ferguson, Craig R ^a   Sheffield, Justin ^a   Wood, Eric F ^a   Gao, Huilin ^b  

^a Princeton University   (United States)

^b University of Washington   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUDGET CONTROL; CLIMATE MODELS; CLIMATOLOGY; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; GEODETIC SATELLITES; SOIL MOISTURE; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; VEGETATION;

EVAPORATIVE FRACTION; GRAVITY RECOVERY AND CLIMATE EXPERIMENTS; INTERNATIONAL SATELLITE CLOUD CLIMATOLOGY PROJECTS; NORTH AMERICAN LAND DATA ASSIMILATION SYSTEMS; PENMAN-MONTEITH MODELS; SURFACE RADIATION BUDGET; SURFACE TEMPERATURES; VARIABLE INFILTRATION CAPACITY MODELS;

REMOTE SENSING;

DATA ASSIMILATION; DATA SET; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARAMETERIZATION; REMOTE SENSING; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 77953344402     PISSN: 01431161     EISSN: 13665901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01431161.2010.483490     Document Type: Article

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