Spatial horizontal correlation characteristics in the land data assimilation of soil moisture

Hydrology and Earth System Sciences

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1349-1363

  Han, X ^a,b   Li, X ^a   Hendricks Franssen, H J ^b   Vereecken, H ^b   Montzka, C ^b  

^a Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

^b FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASSIMILATION PROCEDURE; COMMUNITY LAND MODELS; CORRELATION STRUCTURE; GRID CELLS; LAND DATA ASSIMILATION; NORTHWESTERN CHINA; OBSERVATION DATA; OBSERVING SYSTEM SIMULATION EXPERIMENTS; REMOTE SENSING IMAGES; RIVER BASINS; SPATIAL CORRELATION STRUCTURES; SURFACE SOIL MOISTURE; SYNTHETIC SURFACES; UPPER LIMITS;

CELLS; CYTOLOGY; DATA PROCESSING; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION;

SOIL MOISTURE;

CORRELATION; DATA ASSIMILATION; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SOIL MOISTURE; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; VEGETATION COVER;

BABAO BASIN; CHINA; QINGHAI;

EID: 84865333400     PISSN: 10275606     EISSN: 16077938     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/hess-16-1349-2012     Document Type: Article

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