Evaluation of remotely sensed and modelled soil moisture products using global ground-based in situ observations

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 118, Issue , 2012, Pages 215-226

  Albergel, Clement ^a   de Rosnay, Patricia ^a   Gruhier, Claire ^b   Muñoz Sabater, Joaquin ^a   Hasenauer, Stefan ^c   Isaksen, Lars ^a   Kerr, Yann ^b   Wagner, Wolfgang ^c  

^a EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS   (United Kingdom)

^b CESBIO   (France)

^c VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Global ground based evaluation; In situ soil moisture; Land surface data assimilation system; Remotely sensed surface soil moisture

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL CYCLE; AUSTRALIA; CLIMATE CONDITION; EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM-RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS; GROUND BASED; IN-SITU; IN-SITU DATA; IN-SITU OBSERVATIONS; LAND SURFACE DATA ASSIMILATION SYSTEM; MICROWAVE EMISSIONS; NEAR-REAL TIME; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION; OFFLINE; RADIO FREQUENCY INTERFERENCE; REMOTELY SENSED SOIL MOISTURE; REMOTELY SENSED SURFACE SOIL MOISTURE; SATELLITE MEASUREMENTS; SCATTEROMETERS; SHORT TERM; SOIL MOISTURE ANALYSIS; SOIL MOISTURE OCEAN SALINITIES; SOIL MOISTURE RETRIEVALS; SURFACE DATA; SURFACE SOIL MOISTURE; TIMES SERIES; TWO-PRODUCT;

DATA PROCESSING; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING; SOIL MOISTURE; WEATHER FORECASTING;

SOIL SURVEYS;

DATA ASSIMILATION; EOS; GROUND-BASED MEASUREMENT; IN SITU MEASUREMENT; KALMAN FILTER; NUMERICAL MODEL; REAL TIME; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE DATA; SOIL MOISTURE; WEATHER FORECASTING;

AFRICA; AUSTRALIA; EUROPE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84055181341     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2011.11.017     Document Type: Article

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