The efficiency of assimilating satellite soil moisture retrievals in a land data assimilation system using different rainfall error models

Journal of Hydrometeorology

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 368-374

  Maggioni, Viviana ^a   Reichle, Rolf ^b   Anagnostou, Emmanouil ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Data assimilation; Ensembles; Land surface model; Model errors; Remote sensing; Satellite observations

Indexed keywords

AMSR-E; DATA ASSIMILATION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RAINFALL; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE DATA; SOIL MOISTURE;

EID: 84875067131     PISSN: 1525755X     EISSN: 15257541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JHM-D-12-0105.1     Document Type: Article

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