Articles | Volume 19, issue 11
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-19-4463-2015
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-19-4463-2015
Research article
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06 Nov 2015
Research article |  | 06 Nov 2015

Evaluating the utility of satellite soil moisture retrievals over irrigated areas and the ability of land data assimilation methods to correct for unmodeled processes

S. V. Kumar, C. D. Peters-Lidard, J. A. Santanello, R. H. Reichle, C. S. Draper, R. D. Koster, G. Nearing, and M. F. Jasinski

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