GRACE hydrological estimates for small basins: Evaluating processing approaches on the High Plains aquifer, USA

Water Resources Research

Volumn 46, Issue 11, 2010, Pages

  Longuevergne, Laurent ^a,b   Scanlon, Bridget R ^a   Wilson, Clark R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONCENTRATION ALGORITHMS; ESTIMATION BIAS; GRAVITY RECOVERY AND CLIMATE EXPERIMENT SATELLITES; NOISE CONTAMINATION; NOISE REDUCTIONS; NOISE SUPPRESSION; OPTIMAL PROCESSING; PROCESSING APPROACH; PROCESSING METHOD; PROCESSING TECHNIQUE; REGION OF INTEREST; REGION-OF-INTEREST APPROACH; REGIONAL SCALE; RELIABLE ESTIMATES; RESOLUTION LIMITS; SHAPE DESCRIPTION; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; WATER STORAGE VARIATION;

AQUIFERS; GEODETIC SATELLITES; GERMANIUM; IMAGE RESOLUTION; INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH; SPACE RESEARCH;

PROCESSING;

ALGORITHM; AQUIFER CHARACTERIZATION; BASIN ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION METHOD; OPTIMIZATION; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE DATA; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; WATER STORAGE;

GREAT PLAINS;

EID: 78649341925     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009WR008564     Document Type: Article

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