Uncertainty in evapotranspiration from land surface modeling, remote sensing, and GRACE satellites

Water Resources Research

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 1131-1151

  Long, Di ^a   Longuevergne, Laurent ^b   Scanlon, Bridget R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

Author keywords

Evapotranspiration; GRACE; land surface models; remote sensing; water budget closure

Indexed keywords

BUDGET CONTROL; DIGITAL STORAGE; ESTIMATION; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; GEODETIC SATELLITES; RADIOMETERS; REMOTE SENSING; SURFACE MEASUREMENT;

GRACE; GRACE SATELLITES; LAND SURFACE MODELING; LAND SURFACE MODELS; PRIORI KNOWLEDGE; ROOT MEAN SQUARES; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; WATER BUDGET;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

AVHRR; ESTIMATION METHOD; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; GRACE; LAND SURFACE; MODIS; REMOTE SENSING; RUNOFF; SATELLITE DATA; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WATER BUDGET; WATER STORAGE;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 84893675286     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: 19447973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2013WR014581     Document Type: Article

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