Automated quality control of in situ soil moisture from the north american soil moisture database using NLDAS-2 products

Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology

Volumn 54, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 1267-1282

  Xia, Youlong ^a,b   Ford, Trent W ^c   Wu, Yihua ^a,b   Quiring, Steven M ^c   Ek, Michael B ^a  

^a CLIMATE PREDICTION CENTER   (United States)

^b Systems Research Group Inc   (United States)

^c TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Data processing; Data quality control; Hydrology; Land surface model; Soil moisture; Soil temperature

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELS; DATA HANDLING; DATA PROCESSING; HYDROLOGY; MOISTURE; POROSITY; QUALITY ASSURANCE; QUALITY CONTROL; SOIL MOISTURE; SOILS; SURFACE MEASUREMENT; TEMPERATURE;

CLIMATE FORECASTING; CLIMATOLOGICAL CONDITIONS; DATA QUALITY CONTROL; LAND SURFACE MODELING; NORTH AMERICAN LAND DATA ASSIMILATION SYSTEMS; OBSERVATION NETWORKS; SOIL TEMPERATURE; SPURIOUS MEASUREMENTS;

SOIL SURVEYS;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; CALIBRATION; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATOLOGY; DATA PROCESSING; DATABASE; ERROR ANALYSIS; IN SITU MEASUREMENT; SOIL MOISTURE; WEATHER FORECASTING;

CANADA; MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA];

EID: 84944052936     PISSN: 15588424     EISSN: 15588432     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JAMC-D-14-0275.1     Document Type: Article

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