The effect of satellite rainfall error modeling on soil moisture prediction uncertainty

Journal of Hydrometeorology

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 413-428

  Maggioni, Viviana ^a   Reichle, Rolf H ^b   Anagnostou, Emmanouil N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Forecasting; Model errors; Radar observations; Rainfall; Satellite observations; Soil moisture

Indexed keywords

DATA ASSIMILATION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; ERROR ANALYSIS; NOAA SATELLITE; NUMERICAL MODEL; PREDICTION; RAINFALL; RAINGAUGE; SATELLITE DATA; SOIL MOISTURE; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

OKLAHOMA [UNITED STATES]; UNITED STATES;

EID: 79959666899     PISSN: 1525755X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2011JHM1355.1     Document Type: Article

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