Developing and testing a long-term soil moisture dataset at the catchment scale

Journal of Hydrology

Volumn 490, Issue , 2013, Pages 144-151

  Brocca, L ^a   Zucco, G ^a   Moramarco, T ^a   Morbidelli, R ^b  

^a CNR Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Hydrological applications; Long term dataset; Satellite soil moisture validation; Soil moisture; Soil water balance model

Indexed keywords

ACCURATE ESTIMATION; IN-SITU OBSERVATIONS; LONG-TERM DATASET; MASS AND ENERGY BALANCE; SATELLITE SOIL MOISTURE; SOIL WATER BALANCE MODEL; TEMPORAL AND SPATIAL; TEMPORAL VARIABILITY;

CATCHMENTS; CLIMATE MODELS; SOIL MOISTURE; STATISTICAL TESTS;

SOIL SURVEYS;

CATCHMENT; DATA SET; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; IN SITU MEASUREMENT; LAND SURFACE; RESOLUTION; SOIL MOISTURE; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; WATER BUDGET;

ITALY;

EID: 84876850162     PISSN: 00221694     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2013.03.029     Document Type: Article

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