Tracing hydrologic model simulation error as a function of satellite rainfall estimation bias components and land use and land cover conditions

Water Resources Research

Volumn 48, Issue 11, 2012, Pages

  Gebregiorgis, Abebe S ^a   Tian, Yudong ^b,c   Peters Lidard, Christa D ^b   Hossain, Faisal ^a  

^a Tennessee Technological University   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTINUOUS SIMULATION; DISTRIBUTED HYDROLOGIC MODEL; ESTIMATION UNCERTAINTIES; FLOOD PREDICTION; HYDROLOGIC MODELS; LAND USE AND LAND COVER; LONG TERM MONITORING; MISSISSIPPI; MISSISSIPPI RIVER BASIN; PHYSICALLY BASED; SATELLITE PRODUCTS; SATELLITE RAINFALL ESTIMATION; SUMMER SEASON; VARIABLE INFILTRATION CAPACITIES; WINTER SEASONS;

LAND USE; LANDFORMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RAIN; RAIN GAGES; RUNOFF; SOIL MOISTURE;

SATELLITES;

ERROR ANALYSIS; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; LAND COVER; LAND USE; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; PREDICTION; RAINFALL; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SAVANNA; SOIL MOISTURE; WATERSHED; WOODLAND;

MISSISSIPPI BASIN; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84869402188     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011WR011643     Document Type: Article

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