A multiscale soil moisture and freeze-thaw monitoring network on the third pole

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Volumn 94, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 1907-1916

  Yang, Kun ^a   Qin, Jun ^a   Zhao, Long ^b   Chen, Yingying ^a   Tang, Wenjun ^a   Han, Menglei ^b   Zhu, La ^b   Chen, Zhuoqi ^c   Lv, Ning ^d   Ding, Baohong ^b   Wu, Hui ^b   Lin, Changgui ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b Zhenjiang Medical College   (China)

^c BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHIC SCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES RESEARCH   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVERAGE ELEVATION; HIGH QUALITY DATA; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY; LAND DATA ASSIMILATION; MICROWAVE REMOTE SENSING; MONITORING NETWORK; TEMPERATURE MONITORING;

DATA PROCESSING; SEA LEVEL; SOIL MOISTURE;

SOIL SURVEYS;

EID: 84890491827     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/BAMs-d-12-00203.1     Document Type: Article

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