Blending satellite observed, model simulated, and in situ measured soil moisture over Tibetan Plateau

Remote Sensing

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2016, Pages

  Zeng, Yijian ^a   Su, Zhongbo ^a   Van Der Velde, Rogier ^a   Wang, Lichun ^a   Xu, Kai ^b   Wang, Xing ^c   Wen, Jun ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^b TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

Author keywords

AMSRE; ASCAT; Climatic zones; ERA Interim; Soil moisture; Tibet Obs; Tibetan Plateau; Triple collocation

Indexed keywords

BLENDING; CLIMATOLOGY; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; MOISTURE; SATELLITES; SOILS;

AMSRE; ASCAT; CLIMATIC ZONE; ERA INTERIMS; TIBET-OBS; TIBETAN PLATEAU; TRIPLE COLLOCATION;

SOIL MOISTURE;

EID: 84962495178     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs8030268     Document Type: Article

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