Impact of quality control of satellite soil moisture data on their assimilation into land surface model

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 41, Issue 20, 2014, Pages 7159-7166

  Yin, Jifu ^a,b   Zhan, Xiwu ^b   Zheng, Youfei ^a   Liu, Jicheng ^b,c   Hain, Christopher R ^b,d   Fang, Li ^b,d  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY OF INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

data assimilation; green vegetation fraction; quality control; SMOPS soil moisture product

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; INFORMATION SERVICES; MOISTURE; MOISTURE CONTROL; QUALITY ASSURANCE; QUALITY CONTROL; SATELLITES; SOIL MOISTURE; SOILS; SURFACE MEASUREMENT; VEGETATION; WEATHER FORECASTING;

DATA ASSIMILATION; ENVIRONMENTAL SATELLITES; NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICES; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION MODELS; ROOT ZONE SOIL MOISTURES; SATELLITE SOIL MOISTURE; SMOPS SOIL MOISTURE PRODUCT; VEGETATION FRACTIONS;

SOIL SURVEYS;

DATA ASSIMILATION; FRACTIONATION; IN SITU MEASUREMENT; LAND SURFACE; NOAA SATELLITE; NUMERICAL MODEL; QUALITY CONTROL; SATELLITE DATA; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SOIL MOISTURE; VEGETATION STRUCTURE;

EID: 84911425923     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014GL060659     Document Type: Article

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