Assimilation of MODIS snow cover through the data assimilation research testbed and the community Land Model version 4

Journal of Geophysical Research

Volumn 119, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 7091-7103

  Zhang, Yong Fei ^a   Hoar, Tim J ^b   Yang, Zong Liang ^a   Anderson, Jeffrey L ^b   Toure, Ally M ^c,d   Rodell, Matthew ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITIES SPACE RESEARCH ASSOCIATION   (United States)

^d NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL STORAGE; KALMAN FILTERS; RADIOMETERS; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SNOW MELTING SYSTEMS; TESTBEDS;

DATA ASSIMILATION; ENSEMBLE KALMAN FILTER; MODIS OBSERVATIONS; SNOW COVERS; SNOW WATER EQUIVALENT;

SNOW;

EID: 84904748184     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: 21562202     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2013JD021329     Document Type: Article

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