Estimating total discharge in the yangtze river basin using satellite-based observations

Remote Sensing

Volumn 5, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 3415-3430

  Ferreira, Vagner G ^a   Gong, Zheng ^a   He, Xiufeng ^a   Zhang, Yonglei ^a   Andam Akorful, Samuel A ^a  

^a HOHAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Climate changes; Evaporation; GLDAS; GRACE; Hydrogeodesy; TRMM; Water balance

Indexed keywords

GLDAS; GRACE; HYDROGEODESY; TRMM; WATER BALANCE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; EVAPORATION; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; PHASE TRANSITIONS; STREAM FLOW; WATER SUPPLY; WATERSHEDS;

GEODETIC SATELLITES;

EID: 84881485290     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs5073415     Document Type: Article

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