The use of H-SAF soil moisture products for operational hydrology: Flood modelling over Italy

Hydrology

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 2-22

  Massari, Christian ^a   Brocca, Luca ^a   Ciabatta, Luca ^a   Moramarco, Tommaso ^a   Gabellani, Simone ^b   Albergel, Clement ^c   Rosnay, Patricia De ^c   Puca, Silvia ^d   Wagner, Wolfgang ^e  

^a CNR Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche   (Italy)

^b Interuniversity Center Research in Environmental Monitoring (CIMA)   (Italy)

^c EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS   (United Kingdom)

^d Italian Civil Protection Department   (Italy)

^e VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Floods; Hydrological modelling; Remote sensing; Soil moisture

Indexed keywords

EID: 84944313400     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23065338     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/hydrology2010002     Document Type: Article

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