Impact of assimilating passive microwave observations on root-zone soil moisture under dynamic vegetation conditions

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 50, Issue 11 PART1, 2012, Pages 4279-4291

  Nagarajan, Karthik ^a   Judge, Jasmeet ^a   Monsivais Huertero, Alejandro ^b   Graham, Wendy D ^c  

^a University of Florida   (United States)

^b Insitituto Polictenico Nacional   (Mexico)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Conditional entropy (CH); dynamic vegetation; Ensemble Kalman Filter (EnKF); parameter sensitivity; passive microwave assimilation; root zone soil moisture (RZSM)

Indexed keywords

ENTROPY; ESTIMATION; EXPERIMENTS; INFORMATION THEORY; KALMAN FILTERS; MICROWAVES; SOIL MOISTURE; VEGETATION;

CONDITIONAL ENTROPY; ENSEMBLE KALMAN FILTER; PARAMETER SENSITIVITIES; PASSIVE MICROWAVES; ROOT-ZONE SOIL MOISTURE (RZSM);

GEOLOGIC MODELS;

AIR-SOIL INTERACTION; DATA ASSIMILATION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; ERROR ANALYSIS; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GROWING SEASON; GROWTH RATE; IRRIGATION; KALMAN FILTER; MAIZE; MICROWAVE IMAGERY; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARAMETERIZATION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RHIZOSPHERE; SMOS; SOIL MOISTURE; SOIL-VEGETATION INTERACTION; VEGETATION STRUCTURE;

ZEA MAYS;

EID: 84869502384     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2012.2191154     Document Type: Article

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