Model validation; Evaporation; Evapotranspiration; Thermal IR; Remote sensing; Landsat-TM

Validation of a Large Scale Hydrological Model with Data Fields Retrieved from Reflective and Thermal Optical Remote Sensing Data - A Case Study for the Upper Rhine Valley

For the entire Upper Rhine Valley between Karlsruhe and Basel, a long term simulation (1985-2002) with the GWN-BW model (partly physically based 1-D water balance model) resulted in the retrieval of the following hydrological process variables: daily …