Assimilation of MODIS snow cover area data in a distributed hydrological model using the particle filter

Remote Sensing

Volumn 5, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 5825-5850

  Thirel, Guillaume ^a,b   Salamon, Peter ^a,b   Burek, Peter ^a,b   Kalas, Milan ^a,b  

^a JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

^b National Research Institute of Science and Technology for Environment and Agriculture   (France)

Author keywords

Danube; Data assimilation; Discharge; Distributed hydrological model; LISFLOOD; MODIS Snow Cover Area; Particle filter

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA PROCESSING; DISCHARGE (FLUID MECHANICS); EXPERIMENTS; FLOOD CONTROL; FLOODS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; SNOW;

DANUBE; DATA ASSIMILATION; DISTRIBUTED HYDROLOGICAL MODEL; LISFLOOD; PARTICLE FILTER; SNOW COVER AREA;

RADIOMETERS;

EID: 84904677455     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs5115825     Document Type: Article

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