Assimilation of remotely sensed soil moisture and snow depth retrievals for drought estimation

Journal of Hydrometeorology

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 2446-2469

  Kumar, Sujay V ^a,b   Peters Lidard, Christa D ^b   Mocko, David ^a,b   Reichle, Rolf ^b   Liu, Yuqiong ^b,c   Arsenault, Kristi R ^a   Xia, Youlong ^d   Ek, Michael ^d   Riggs, George ^b   Livneh, Ben ^e   Cosh, Michael ^f  

^a SCIENCE APPLICATIONS INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^c Bldg 142   (United States)

^d NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^e NOAA/NCEP/Environmental Modeling Center ^*  (United States)

^f AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Data assimilation; Drought; Snow; Soil moisture; Streamflow

Indexed keywords

DATA ASSIMILATION; DEPTH; DROUGHT; ESTIMATION METHOD; REMOTE SENSING; SNOW COVER; SOIL MOISTURE; STREAMFLOW;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 84915819156     PISSN: 1525755X     EISSN: 15257541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JHM-D-13-0132.1     Document Type: Article

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