Assimilation of satellite data to optimize large-scale hydrological model parameters: A case study for the SWOT mission

Hydrology and Earth System Sciences

Volumn 18, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 4485-4507

  Pedinotti, V ^a,b   Boone, A ^a   Ricci, S ^c   Biancamaria, S ^d   Mognard, N ^b  

^a CENTRE NATIONAL DE RECHERCHES MÉTÉOROLOGIQUES   (France)

^b CNES   (France)

^c CERFACS   (France)

^d CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AQUIFERS; CLIMATE MODELS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIGITAL STORAGE; ERRORS; EXPERIMENTS; EXTENDED KALMAN FILTERS; FLOODS; GROUNDWATER; GROUNDWATER RESOURCES; HYDROLOGY; KALMAN FILTERS; RIVERS; SATELLITES; SURFACE TOPOGRAPHY; SURFACE WATERS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WATER LEVELS; WATER RESOURCES;

EKF (EXTENDED KALMAN FILTER); HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; MANNING ROUGHNESS COEFFICIENT; OBSERVING SYSTEM SIMULATION EXPERIMENTS; PARAMETER OPTIMIZATION; SATELLITE MEASUREMENTS; TRANS-BOUNDARY RIVERS; WATER SURFACE ELEVATIONS;

RESERVOIRS (WATER);

ALGORITHM; DATA ASSIMILATION; DISCHARGE; GEOMORPHOLOGY; HYDROLOGICAL CYCLE; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; IN SITU MEASUREMENT; NUMERICAL MODEL; OPTIMIZATION; PARAMETERIZATION; SATELLITE DATA;

NIGER BASIN;

EID: 84911368245     PISSN: 10275606     EISSN: 16077938     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/hess-18-4485-2014     Document Type: Article

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