Error propagation of remote sensing rainfall estimates in soil moisture prediction from a land surface model

Journal of Hydrometeorology

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 705-720

  Serpetzoglou, Efthymios ^a   Anagnostou, Emmanouil N ^a,b   Papadopoulos, Anastasios ^a   Nikolopoulos, Efthymios I ^a,b   Maggioni, Viviana ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENCHMARKING; DOPPLER RADAR; ERROR ANALYSIS; IN SITU MEASUREMENT; LAND SURFACE; MODELING; NOAA SATELLITE; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; RAINFALL; RAINGAUGE; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE DATA; SOIL MOISTURE; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

OKLAHOMA [UNITED STATES]; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77955504625     PISSN: 1525755X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2009JHM1166.1     Document Type: Article

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