Advancing land surface model development with satellite-based Earth observations

Hydrology and Earth System Sciences

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2017, Pages 2483-2495

  Orth, Rene ^a,b   Dutra, Emanuel ^a,c   Trigo, Isabel F ^c,d   Balsamo, Gianpaolo ^a  

^a EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS   (United Kingdom)

^b ETH Zurich   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

^d INSTITUTO PORTUGUÊS DO MAR E DA ATMOSFERA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CALIBRATION; HYDROLOGY; OBSERVATORIES; SATELLITES; SURFACE MEASUREMENT; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

CONSTRAINED PARAMETERS; LAND SURFACE MODELING; LAND SURFACE TEMPERATURE; PARAMETER SIMULATIONS; PROCESS REPRESENTATION; SATELLITE BASED EARTH OBSERVATION; SATISFACTORY MODELING; WEATHER PREDICTABILITY;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

ARRAY; BOUNDARY LAYER; CALIBRATION; CLIMATE CONDITIONS; CLIMATE FEEDBACK; DATA SET; HYDROLOGY; LAND SURFACE; MODEL TEST; PARAMETERIZATION; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SURFACE TEMPERATURE; WEATHER; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 85019179964     PISSN: 10275606     EISSN: 16077938     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/hess-21-2483-2017     Document Type: Article

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