A methodology for evaluating evapotranspiration estimates at the watershed-scale using GRACE

Journal of Hydrology

Volumn 523, Issue , 2015, Pages 574-586

  Billah, Mirza M ^a   Goodall, Jonathan L ^b,c   Narayan, Ujjwal ^d   Reager, J T ^e   Lakshmi, Venkat ^f   Famiglietti, James S ^e,g  

^a Bureau of Water SC Dept of Health Envtl Control   (United States)

^b University of Virginia   (United States)

^c University of South Carolina   (United States)

^d Con Edison ^*  (United States)

^e CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Evapotranspiration; GRACE; Terrestrial water storage (TWS)

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; DIGITAL STORAGE; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; REMOTE SENSING; WATER RESOURCES; WATER SUPPLY;

ACCURATE QUANTIFICATIONS; ASSIMILATION PROCEDURE; GRACE; GRAVITY RECOVERY AND CLIMATE EXPERIMENTS; NORTH AMERICAN LAND DATA ASSIMILATION SYSTEMS; RESEARCH CHALLENGES; TERRESTRIAL WATER STORAGE; WATER RESOURCES MANAGEMENT;

WATERSHEDS;

EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; GRACE; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; WATER BUDGET; WATER RESOURCE; WATERSHED;

SOUTH CAROLINA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84923064113     PISSN: 00221694     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2015.01.066     Document Type: Article

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