Evaluation of the ESA CCI soil moisture product using ground-based observations

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 162, Issue , 2015, Pages 380-395

  Dorigo, W A ^a   Gruber, A ^a   De Jeu, R A M ^b   Wagner, W ^a   Stacke, T ^c   Loew, A ^c   Albergel, C ^d   Brocca, L ^e   Chung, D ^a   Parinussa, R M ^b   Kidd, R ^a  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR METEOROLOGY   (Germany)

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

^e CNR Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche   (Italy)

Author keywords

Climate change; Climate data record; Essential climate variable; In situ; Radiometer; Scatterometer; Soil moisture; Validation

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; DATA FLOW ANALYSIS; ERRORS; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; MICROWAVE SENSORS; MOISTURE; RADIOMETERS; RANDOM ERRORS; SOIL MOISTURE; SOILS;

CLIMATE DATA RECORDS; CLIMATE VARIABLES; GROUND-BASED OBSERVATIONS; ROOT MEAN SQUARE DIFFERENCES; SCATTEROMETERS; SOIL MOISTURE RETRIEVALS; SPEARMAN CORRELATION COEFFICIENTS; VALIDATION;

SOIL SURVEYS;

EID: 84929061651     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2014.07.023     Document Type: Article

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