Impact of soil moisture assimilation on land surface model spinup and coupled land-atmosphere prediction

Journal of Hydrometeorology

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 517-540

  Santanello, Joseph A ^a   Kumar, Sujay V ^a,b   Peters Lidard, Christa D ^a   Lawston, Patricia M ^c  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b SCIENCE APPLICATIONS INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMSR-E; DATA ASSIMILATION; EOS; LAND SURFACE; PREDICTION; SOIL MOISTURE; WEATHER FORECASTING;

GREAT PLAINS;

EID: 84957989753     PISSN: 1525755X     EISSN: 15257541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JHM-D-15-0072.1     Document Type: Article

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