Long term soil moisture mapping over the Tibetan plateau using special sensor microwave/imager

Hydrology and Earth System Sciences

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 1323-1337

  Van Der Velde, R ^a   Salama, M S ^a   Pellarin, T ^b   Ofwono, M ^a,d   Ma, Y ^c   Su, Z ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^d INSTITUTE OF GEODESY AND CARTOGRAPHY   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTH SCIENCES; HYDROLOGY;

COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITIES; LAND DATA ASSIMILATION SYSTEMS; POTENTIAL EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; RADIATIVE TRANSFER MODEL; ROOT MEAN SQUARED ERRORS; SOIL MOISTURE RETRIEVALS; SPECIAL SENSOR MICROWAVE IMAGERS; SPECIAL SENSOR MICROWAVE/IMAGER;

SOIL MOISTURE;

ALGORITHM; ANOMALY; ERROR CORRECTION; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; MICROWAVE IMAGERY; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RADIATIVE TRANSFER; SOIL MOISTURE; SSM-I; TREND ANALYSIS; WETTING;

CHINA; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

EID: 84898066816     PISSN: 10275606     EISSN: 16077938     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/hess-18-1323-2014     Document Type: Article

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