Assimilation of radar altimetry to a routing model of the Brahmaputra River

Water Resources Research

Volumn 49, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 4807-4816

  Michailovsky, Claire I ^a   Milzow, Christian ^a,b   Bauer Gottwein, Peter ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b IBG Ltd   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

assimilation; hydrology; radar altimetry

Indexed keywords

GEODETIC SATELLITES; HYDROLOGY; KALMAN FILTERS; RADAR STATIONS; REMOTE SENSING; RIVERS; SPACE-BASED RADAR;

ASSIMILATION; HYDROLOGICAL PREDICTION; LARGE-SCALE APPLICATIONS; QUANTITIES OF INTERESTS; RADAR ALTIMETRY; RAINFALL-RUNOFF MODELING; SATELLITE RADAR ALTIMETRY; SATELLITE-BASED RADAR;

RADAR TRACKING;

EID: 84881082273     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: 19447973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/wrcr.20345     Document Type: Article

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