Assimilating passive microwave remote sensing data into a land surface model to improve the estimation of snow depth

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 143, Issue , 2014, Pages 54-63

  Che, Tao ^a   Li, Xin ^a   Jin, Rui ^a   Huang, Chunlin ^a  

^a Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

Author keywords

CoLM; Data assimilation; Ensemble Kalman filter; MEMLS; Passive microwave; Remote sensing; Snow depth

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; KALMAN FILTERS; LUMINANCE; MICROWAVE FILTERS; MICROWAVES; REMOTE SENSING; SNOW; SNOW MELTING SYSTEMS; TEMPERATURE; WATER RESOURCES; WEATHER FORECASTING;

COLM; DATA ASSIMILATION; ENSEMBLE KALMAN FILTER; MEMLS; PASSIVE MICROWAVES; SNOW DEPTHS;

PASSIVE FILTERS;

BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE; COLD REGION; DATA ASSIMILATION; ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; GRAIN SIZE; KALMAN FILTER; LAND SURFACE; METEOROLOGY; MICROWAVE IMAGERY; REMOTE SENSING; SNOW ACCUMULATION; SNOWPACK; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; WATER RESOURCE;

SIBERIA;

EID: 84892535753     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2013.12.009     Document Type: Article

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