The impact of land surface temperature on soil moisture anomaly detection from passive microwave observations

Hydrology and Earth System Sciences

Volumn 15, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 3135-3151

  Parinussa, R M ^a,b   Holmes, T R H ^a   Yilmaz, M T ^a   Crow, W T ^a  

^a AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANCILLARY DATA; ANOMALY DETECTION; DATA ASSIMILATION; EARTH'S SURFACE; KA BAND; L-BAND FREQUENCIES; LAND SURFACE PARAMETERS; LAND SURFACE TEMPERATURE; LOW FREQUENCY; MICROWAVE OBSERVATIONS; MICROWAVE SCANNING; MULTI-CHANNEL; NEAR REAL-TIME DATUM; PASSIVE MICROWAVES; PHYSICAL TEMPERATURE; PRE-PROCESSING; R VALUE; REANALYSIS; RESEARCH AND APPLICATION; SATELLITE MISSION; SATELLITE SENSORS; SINGLE FREQUENCY; SOIL MOISTURE AND OCEAN SALINITIES; SOIL MOISTURE RETRIEVALS; SPATIAL INTERPOLATION; SURFACE SOIL MOISTURE; SURFACE SOIL MOISTURE RETRIEVAL; SURFACE TEMPERATURE RETRIEVAL; SURFACE TEMPERATURES; WEATHER PREDICTION; WINDSAT;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; DATA PROCESSING; ESTIMATION; MICROWAVE SENSORS; MICROWAVES; MOISTURE DETERMINATION; RADIOMETERS; RADIOMETRY; SOIL MOISTURE; SURFACE MEASUREMENT; SURFACE PROPERTIES; WEATHER SATELLITES;

SOIL SURVEYS;

ALGORITHM; AMSR-E; DATA ASSIMILATION; EOS; LAND SURFACE; MICROWAVE IMAGERY; PREDICTION; REAL TIME; SATELLITE MISSION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SOIL MOISTURE; SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

EID: 80055017086     PISSN: 10275606     EISSN: 16077938     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/hess-15-3135-2011     Document Type: Article

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