Assimilation of satellite soil moisture data into rainfall-runoff modelling for several catchments worldwide

International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 2281-2284

  Brocca, Luca ^a   Moramarco, Tommaso ^a   Dorigo, Wouter ^b   Wagner, Wolfgang ^b  

^a CNR Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche   (Italy)

^b VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

data assimilation; rainfall runoff modelling; remote sensing; Soil moisture

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894255665     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IGARSS.2013.6723273     Document Type: Conference Paper

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