Characteristic mega-basin water storage behavior using GRACE

Water Resources Research

Volumn 49, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 3314-3329

  Reager, J T ^a   Famiglietti, James S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

global hydrology; GRACE; model; remote sensing; storage

Indexed keywords

ENERGY STORAGE; FORESTRY; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; MODELS; NASA; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); REMOTE SENSING; SOIL MOISTURE; TIME SERIES; TRANSFER FUNCTIONS;

EMPIRICAL RELATIONSHIPS; FREQUENCY DOMAIN TRANSFER FUNCTIONS; GLOBAL HYDROLOGY; GLOBAL PRECIPITATION CLIMATOLOGY PROJECTS; GRACE; GRACE TERRESTRIAL WATER STORAGES; GRAVITY RECOVERY AND CLIMATE EXPERIMENT MISSIONS; TERRESTRIAL WATER STORAGE;

DIGITAL STORAGE;

DATA SET; FOREST COVER; GRACE; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); REMOTE SENSING; WATER STORAGE;

ENERGY; FORESTRY; MODELS; MOISTURE; REMOTE SENSING; SOIL; STORAGE;

EID: 84881045541     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: 19447973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/wrcr.20264     Document Type: Article

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