Robust estimates of soil moisture and latent heat flux coupling strength obtained from triple collocation

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 42, Issue 20, 2015, Pages 8415-8423

  Crow, Wade T ^a   Lei, Fangni ^a,b   Hain, Christopher ^c   Anderson, Martha C ^a   Scott, Russell L ^d   Billesbach, David ^e   Arkebauer, Timothy ^e  

^a AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^b WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^d SOUTHWEST WATERSHED RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

coupling strength; remote sensing; soil moisture; surface energy fluxes; triple collocation

Indexed keywords

ERRORS; HEAT FLUX; LATENT HEAT; REMOTE SENSING; STATISTICAL MECHANICS; SURFACE MEASUREMENT;

COLLOCATION APPROACHES; COUPLING STRENGTHS; GROUND-BASED OBSERVATIONS; SATELLITE REMOTE SENSING; STATISTICAL TECHNIQUES; SURFACE ENERGY FLUXES; SURFACE SOIL MOISTURE; TRIPLE COLLOCATION;

SOIL MOISTURE;

COUPLING; ERROR ANALYSIS; EVAPORATION; GROUND-BASED MEASUREMENT; LAND SURFACE; LATENT HEAT FLUX; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE DATA; SOIL MOISTURE; SURFACE ENERGY;

EID: 84946615815     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2015GL065929     Document Type: Article

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