Assimilation of surface soil moisture into a multilayer soil model: Design and evaluation at local scale

Hydrology and Earth System Sciences

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 673-689

  Parrens, M ^a   Mahfouf, J F ^a   Barbu, A L ^a   Calvet, J C ^a  

^a CENTRE NATIONAL DE RECHERCHES MÉTÉOROLOGIQUES   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACKGROUND-ERROR COVARIANCES; CUMULATIVE DISTRIBUTION FUNCTION; DESIGN AND EVALUATIONS; SEASONAL VARIABILITY; SENSITIVITY STUDIES; SURFACE MONITORING OF THE SOIL RESERVOIR EXPERIMENTS; SURFACE SOIL MOISTURE; VERTICAL CORRELATION;

COVARIANCE MATRIX; DIFFUSION; EXPERIMENTS; MULTILAYERS;

SOIL MOISTURE;

KALMAN FILTER; MONITORING; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SEASONAL VARIATION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SOIL COLUMN; SOIL MOISTURE; SOIL SURFACE;

FRANCE;

EID: 84897603316     PISSN: 10275606     EISSN: 16077938     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/hess-18-673-2014     Document Type: Article

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