Evaluation of soil moisture data products over Indian region and analysis of spatio-temporal characteristics with respect to monsoon rainfall

Journal of Hydrology

Volumn 542, Issue , 2016, Pages 47-62

  Sathyanadh, Anusha ^a   Karipot, Anandakumar ^a   Ranalkar, Manish ^b   Prabhakaran, Thara ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PUNE   (India)

^b Office of Climate Research and Services   (India)

^c INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL METEOROLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

Dominant modes of soil moisture; Indian monsoon; Soil moisture data products; Soil moisture evaluation; Soil moisture memory; Spatio temporal soil moisture variability

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; CLIMATE MODELS; DROUGHT; MOISTURE; RAIN; SOIL MOISTURE; SOILS; WAVELET DECOMPOSITION; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

DOMINANT MODE; INDIAN MONSOON; INTRASEASONAL VARIABILITY; LAND DATA ASSIMILATION SYSTEMS; MOISTURE DATA; MOISTURE VARIABILITY; SPATIOTEMPORAL CHARACTERISTICS; SPATIOTEMPORAL VARIABILITY;

SOIL SURVEYS;

AUTOCORRELATION; CLIMATE VARIATION; MEASUREMENT METHOD; MODEL VALIDATION; MONSOON; PERIODICITY; RAINFALL; SEASONAL VARIATION; SOIL MOISTURE; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; WAVELET ANALYSIS;

EUROPE; INDIA;

EID: 84994627192     PISSN: 00221694     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2016.08.040     Document Type: Article

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