Reconciling the global terrestrial water budget using satellite remote sensing

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 115, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1850-1865

  Sahoo, Alok K ^a   Pan, Ming ^a   Troy, Tara J ^a   Vinukollu, Raghuveer K ^a   Sheffield, Justin ^a   Wood, Eric F ^a  

^a Princeton University   (United States)

Author keywords

Global terrestrial water budget; Remote sensing; Water budget closure

Indexed keywords

DATA INPUT; EARTH OBSERVING SYSTEMS; ENSEMBLE KALMAN FILTER; ERROR VALUES; IN-SITU; INTERNATIONAL SATELLITE CLOUD CLIMATOLOGY PROJECTS; MEAN ANNUAL PRECIPITATION; MULTIPLE SATELLITES; PENMAN-MONTEITH; PERSIANN; PRIESTLEY-TAYLOR; RETRIEVAL MODELS; RIVER BASINS; RIVER DISCHARGE; SATELLITE DATA; SATELLITE PRECIPITATION; SATELLITE REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE RETRIEVAL; SURFACE ENERGY BALANCE SYSTEMS; WATER BUDGET; WATER BUDGET CLOSURE; WATER BUDGET COMPONENTS; WATER CYCLE; WATER STORAGE; WEIGHTED VALUES;

BUDGET CONTROL; CLIMATOLOGY; ERRORS; ESTIMATION; REMOTE SENSING; RIVERS; SEARCH ENGINES; SURFACE CHEMISTRY; WATERSHEDS;

GEODETIC SATELLITES;

CLOSURE; ENERGY BALANCE; ERROR ANALYSIS; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE; GRACE; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; RIVER BASIN; RIVER DISCHARGE; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SURFACE ENERGY; TERRESTRIAL ENVIRONMENT; WATER BUDGET;

EID: 79957587195     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2011.03.009     Document Type: Article

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