Global analysis of approaches for deriving total water storage changes from GRACE satellites

Water Resources Research

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 2574-2594

  Long, Di ^a,b   Longuevergne, Laurent ^c   Scanlon, Bridget R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

Author keywords

bias and leakage correction; global analysis; GRACE; scaling factor approach

Indexed keywords

ARID REGIONS; DATA HANDLING; DIGITAL STORAGE; INTELLIGENT CONTROL; IRRIGATION; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ARID AND SEMI-ARID REGIONS; COMPREHENSIVE EVALUATION; CORRECTION APPROACHES; GLOBAL ANALYSIS; GRACE; HIGH-LATITUDE REGIONS; MULTIPLICATIVE CORRECTIONS; SCALING FACTORS;

GEODETIC SATELLITES;

ARID REGION; DATA PROCESSING; ERROR CORRECTION; GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE; GRACE; IRRIGATION SYSTEM; LAND SURFACE; LEAKAGE; RIVER BASIN; SCALE EFFECT; SEMIARID REGION; TEMPORAL VARIATION; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WATER STORAGE;

EID: 84929630725     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: 19447973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014WR016853     Document Type: Article

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