The International Soil Moisture Network: A data hosting facility for global in situ soil moisture measurements

Hydrology and Earth System Sciences

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1675-1698

  Dorigo, W A ^a   Wagner, W ^a   Hohensinn, R ^a   Hahn, S ^a   Paulik, C ^a   Xaver, A ^a   Gruber, A ^a   Drusch, M ^b   Mecklenburg, S ^c   Van Oevelen, P ^d   Robock, A ^e   Jackson, T ^f  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Netherlands)

^c ESA ESRIN   (Italy)

^d International GEWEX Project Office   (United States)

^e RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUSTRALIA; COMMON STANDARDS; DATA AND METADATA; DATA COLLECTING; DATA SETS; IN-SITU; IN-SITU MEASUREMENT; LAND SURFACE MODELS; LAND-COVER CHANGE; METEOROLOGICAL VARIABLES; OPERATIONAL NETWORK; SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITY; SOIL MOISTURE MEASUREMENT; SOIL MOISTURE NETWORKS; SOIL MOISTURE RETRIEVALS; SOIL TEMPERATURE; SOIL WATER; TIME-PERIODS; VOLUMETRIC SOIL MOISTURES; WATER CYCLE; WORLD-WIDE BASIS;

CLIMATE CHANGE; GEOLOGIC MODELS; GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES; METADATA; MOISTURE DETERMINATION; MOISTURE METERS; SOIL MOISTURE; TIME SERIES;

SOIL SURVEYS;

CALIBRATION; DATA SET; LAND COVER; LAND SURFACE; MEASUREMENT METHOD; METEOROLOGY; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SOIL MOISTURE; SOIL TEMPERATURE; STANDARDIZATION;

ASIA; AUSTRALIA; EUROPE; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 79957964230     PISSN: 10275606     EISSN: 16077938     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/hess-15-1675-2011     Document Type: Article

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