Abstract:<p>In the presence of uncertain initial conditions and model parameters coupled land surface model (LSM)- vegetation dynamic model (VDM) performance can be significantly improved by the assimilation of periodic observations of certain state variables, such as the soil moisture and normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) as observed from satellite remote platforms.</p><p>The possibility to merge grass and tree NDVI observations and radar data with the model optima… Show more
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