A preliminary assessment of the impact of SMAP Soil Moisture on numerical weather Forecasts from GFS and NUWRF models

International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)

Volumn 2016-November, Issue , 2016, Pages 5229-5232

  Zhan, Xiwu ^a   Zheng, Weizhong ^b   Fang, Li ^a,c   Liu, Jicheng ^a,c   Hain, Chris ^a,c   Yin, Jifu ^a,c   Ek, Michael ^b  

^a NOAA NESDIS Center for Satellite Applications and Research   (United States)

^b NOAA NWS National Centers for Environmental Predictions   (United States)

^c UMD ESSIC Cooperate Institute of Climate Science   (United States)

Author keywords

GFS; NUWRF; NWP; SMAP; soil moisture

Indexed keywords

EID: 85007449461     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IGARSS.2016.7730362     Document Type: Conference Paper

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