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4 years ago

Coarser soil moisture data leads to inaccurate flood predictions and risk assessments.

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Satellite Imagery-Based SERVES Soil Moisture for the Analysis of Soil Moisture Initialization Input Scale Effects on Physics-Based Distributed Watershed Hydrologic Modelling
Nawa Raj Pradhan, Ian Floyd, Stephen Brown

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