Regional soil moisture retrievals and simulations from assimilation of satellite microwave brightness temperature observations

Environmental Earth Sciences

Volumn 61, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1289-1299

  Shi, Xiaokang ^a   Wen, Jun ^a   Wang, Lei ^a   Zhang, Tangtang ^a   Tian, Hui ^a   Wang, Xin ^a   Liu, Rong ^a   Zhang, Jinghui ^a  

^a Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

Author keywords

AMSR E; Noah; Soil moisture; WRF

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED MICROWAVE SCANNING RADIOMETER; AMSR-E; BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURES; DATA PRODUCTS; DESERT AREA; GEOSCIENCES; GROUND MEASUREMENTS; HYDROLOGICAL PREDICTION; INSERTION METHODS; LAND SURFACE; LAND SURFACE MODELS; LOW FREQUENCY; MICROWAVE BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE; MICROWAVE REMOTE SENSING; MICROWAVE SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS; NCEP REANALYSIS; NEWTONIANS; NOAH; OPTICAL THICKNESS; POLARIZATION INDICES; PRECIPITATION EVENTS; QINGHAI TIBET PLATEAU; QUALITY FACTORS; REGIONAL SCALE; RESEARCH AREAS; ROOT MEAN SQUARE ERRORS; SOIL MOISTURE RETRIEVALS; SOIL TEXTURES; TEMPORAL SCALE; TEMPORAL VARIATION; WEATHER RESEARCH AND FORECASTING MODELS; WRF;

MICROWAVES; MOISTURE DETERMINATION; NASA; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITES; SOIL MOISTURE; SURFACE MEASUREMENT; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; TEMPERATURE;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE; DATA ASSIMILATION; GRASSLAND; LAND SURFACE; MICROWAVE RADIATION; MICROWAVE RADIOMETER; POLARIZATION; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE DATA; SOIL MOISTURE; SOIL TEXTURE; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

CHINA; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

EID: 77956471762     PISSN: 18666280     EISSN: 18666299     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12665-010-0504-8     Document Type: Article

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