Articles | Volume 17, issue 9
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-17-3523-2013
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-17-3523-2013
Research article
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13 Sep 2013
Research article |  | 13 Sep 2013

Potential and limitations of multidecadal satellite soil moisture observations for selected climate model evaluation studies

A. Loew, T. Stacke, W. Dorigo, R. de Jeu, and S. Hagemann

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