The impact of model and rainfall forcing errors on characterizing soil moisture uncertainty in land surface modeling

Hydrology and Earth System Sciences

Volumn 16, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 3499-3515

  Maggioni, V ^a   Anagnostou, E N ^a   Reichle, R H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURATE ESTIMATION; ENSEMBLE DATA ASSIMILATION; LAND DATA ASSIMILATION SYSTEMS; LAND SURFACE MODELING; LAND SURFACE MODELS; MODEL PARAMETERS; MOISTURE SIMULATIONS; OKLAHOMA; PARAMETER PERTURBATION; PARAMETER UNCERTAINTY; PREDICTION UNCERTAINTY; PROGNOSTIC VARIABLES; RAINFALL FIELDS; RAINFALL FORCING; RAINFALL MODELS; RANK HISTOGRAMS; STOCHASTIC ERROR MODELS;

CATCHMENTS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ERRORS; GRAPHIC METHODS; METEOROLOGY; NASA; RAIN; SOIL MOISTURE; STATISTICAL METHODS;

STOCHASTIC MODELS;

CATCHMENT; DATA ASSIMILATION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; ERROR ANALYSIS; HISTOGRAM; HYDROMETEOROLOGY; LAND SURFACE; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); PREDICTION; SATELLITE DATA; SOIL MOISTURE; STOCHASTICITY; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

OKLAHOMA [UNITED STATES]; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84869433274     PISSN: 10275606     EISSN: 16077938     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/hess-16-3499-2012     Document Type: Article

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