Design of a temporal variational data assimilation method suitable for deep soil moisture retrievals using passive microwave radiometer data

11th Specialist Meeting on Microwave Radiometry and Remote Sensing of the Environment, MicroRad 2010 - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 60-62

  Jones, Andrew S ^a   Cogan, James ^b   Mason, George ^c   McWilliams, Gary ^b  

^a Department of Ecosystem Science and Sustainability   (United States)

^b U S ARMY RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c US ARMY ENGINEER RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Data assimilation; Passive microwave remote sensing; Soil moisture

Indexed keywords

ADJOINTS; AIR FORCE; COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT; DATA ASSIMILATION; DEEP SOIL MOISTURE; ENVIRONMENTAL DATA RECORDS; FLOW ESTIMATION; INDIVIDUAL SYSTEMS; LAND INFORMATION SYSTEMS; LAND SURFACE MODELS; MICROWAVE IMAGERS; MOISTURE PERFORMANCE; NATIONAL POLAR-ORBITING OPERATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL SATELLITE SYSTEM; NON-GAUSSIAN; OPERATIONAL ARCHITECTURE; PASSIVE MICROWAVE REMOTE SENSING; PASSIVE MICROWAVES; SKEWED DATA; SYSTEM COMPONENTS; SYSTEM INTEGRATION; TRAFFICABILITY; US ARMY; VARIATIONAL DATA ASSIMILATION;

DATA PROCESSING; MICROWAVE DEVICES; MICROWAVES; MOISTURE DETERMINATION; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; RADIOMETERS; RADIOMETRY; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; SOIL MOISTURE; STREAM FLOW;

SOIL SURVEYS;

EID: 77958083499     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/MICRORAD.2010.5559591     Document Type: Conference Paper

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