Recent developments in hydrologic data assimilation

D McLaughlin - Reviews of Geophysics, 1995 - Wiley Online Library
Data assimilation is a term that is most closely associated with the atmospheric sciences. It
arises from the meteorological custom of constructing daily weather maps which show how …

Operational applications of remote sensing in hydrology: success, prospects and problems

A Rango, AI Shalaby - Hydrological Sciences Journal, 1998 - Taylor & Francis
The use of remote sensing information in operational hydrology is relatively limited, but
specific examples can be cited for determining precipitation, soil moisture, groundwater …

Spatio-temporal patterns and covariance structures of soil water status in two Northeast-German field sites

O Wendroth, W Pohl, S Koszinski, H Rogasik… - Journal of …, 1999 - Elsevier
Spatio-temporal patterns of soil moisture status highly affect the heterogeneity of soil water
and solute transport and leaching of chemicals to the groundwater. In order to quantify and …

Towards a continuous operational system to estimate the root-zone soil moisture from intermittent remotely sensed surface moisture

R Ragab - Journal of Hydrology, 1995 - Elsevier
A study has been carried out to develop and evaluate a system to estimate soil moisture
content in the root-zone using active microwaves from the European Remote Sensing …

Improved linear interpolation method for the estimation of snow-covered area from optical data

S Metsämäki, J Vepsäläinen, J Pulliainen… - Remote Sensing of …, 2002 - Elsevier
Spatially well-distributed information on the regional fraction of snow-covered area (SCA) is
important to snow hydrology during the melting season. One approach for regional SCA …

A GIS-based method for defining snow zones: application to the western United States

C Moore, S Kampf, B Stone, E Richer - Geocarto International, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
This study maps the geographic extent of intermittent and seasonal snow cover in the
western United States using thresholds of 2000–2010 average snow persistence derived …

Mapping basin scale variable source areas from multitemporal remotely sensed observations of soil moisture behavior

NEC Verhoest, PA Troch, C Paniconi… - Water Resources …, 1998 - Wiley Online Library
Soil moisture is an important and highly variable component of the hydrologic cycle. Active
microwave remote sensing offers the potential for frequent observation of soil moisture at …

Defining probability of saturation with indicator kriging on hard and soft data

SW Lyon, AJ Lembo Jr, MT Walter… - Advances in Water …, 2006 - Elsevier
In humid, well-vegetated areas, such as in the northeastern US, runoff is most commonly
generated from relatively small portions of the landscape becoming completely saturated …

A simple surface temperature assimilation scheme for use in land surface models

V Lakshmi - Water Resources Research, 2000 - Wiley Online Library
This paper examines the utilization of surface temperature as a variable which can be
assimilated in off‐line land surface hydrological models. The connection between the …

Recent advances in watershed modelling

GM Hornberger, EW Boyer - Reviews of Geophysics, 1995 - Wiley Online Library
Creation of, application of, and animated discussion of mathematical models of watershed
processes have been favorite pastimes of hydrologists for many decades. The original …