Articles | Volume 18, issue 6
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-18-2343-2014
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-18-2343-2014
Research article
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24 Jun 2014
Research article |  | 24 Jun 2014

The suitability of remotely sensed soil moisture for improving operational flood forecasting

N. Wanders, D. Karssenberg, A. de Roo, S. M. de Jong, and M. F. P. Bierkens

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