Evaluating soil water content in a WRF-Noah downscaling experiment

Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology

Volumn 52, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 2312-2327

  Greve, Peter ^a,b   Warrach Sagi, Kirsten ^a   Wulfmeyer, Volker ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOHENHEIM   (Germany)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSOLUTE VALUES; IN-SITU OBSERVATIONS; LAND SURFACE MODELING; SITU SOIL MOISTURES; SOIL WATER CONTENT; SPATIAL PATTERNS; TEMPORAL VARIABILITY; WEATHER RESEARCH AND FORECASTING MODELS;

CLIMATE MODELS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA PROCESSING; SOIL MOISTURE; WATER CONTENT; WATER SUPPLY;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

CLIMATE MODELING; DOWNSCALING; HINDCASTING; NUMERICAL MODEL; SOIL MOISTURE; WEATHER FORECASTING;

FRANCE;

EID: 84886693973     PISSN: 15588424     EISSN: 15588432     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JAMC-D-12-0239.1     Document Type: Article

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