The impact of rainfall error characterization on the estimation of soil moisture fields in a land data assimilation system

Journal of Hydrometeorology

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 1107-1118

  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

Data assimilation; Error analysis; Satellite observations; Soil moisture

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE PREDICTION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORRELATION; DATA ASSIMILATION; DOPPLER RADAR; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; ERROR ANALYSIS; NOAA SATELLITE; RAINFALL; RHIZOSPHERE; SATELLITE DATA; SOIL MOISTURE;

OKLAHOMA [UNITED STATES]; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84864740927     PISSN: 1525755X     EISSN: 15257541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JHM-D-11-0115.1     Document Type: Article

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