Estimating evapotranspiration with land data assimilation systems

Hydrological Processes

Volumn 25, Issue 26, 2011, Pages 3979-3992

  Peters Lidard, Christa D ^a   Kumar, Sujay V ^a,b   Mocko, David M ^a,b   Tian, Yudong ^a,c  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b SAIC FREDERICK INC   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Evapotranspiration; Land data assimilation systems; Land surface modelling; Soil moisture assimilation

Indexed keywords

ENSEMBLE KALMAN FILTER; HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE; INTERCOMPARISONS; LAND DATA ASSIMILATION SYSTEMS; LAND INFORMATION SYSTEMS; LAND SURFACE; LAND SURFACE MODELLING; LAND SURFACE MODELS; NEW SATELLITES; NORTH AMERICAN; PARAMETER RETRIEVAL;

DATA ACQUISITION; ESTIMATION; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; GEOLOGIC MODELS; NASA; SOIL MOISTURE; SURFACE MEASUREMENT; WATER SUPPLY;

SEARCH ENGINES;

ALGORITHM; DATA ASSIMILATION; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE; INTERPOLATION; KALMAN FILTER; LAND INFORMATION SYSTEM; LAND SURFACE; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SOIL MOISTURE;

EID: 84155170974     PISSN: 08856087     EISSN: 10991085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hyp.8387     Document Type: Article

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