An initial assessment of SMAP soil moisture retrievals using high-resolution model simulations and in situ observations

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 43, Issue 18, 2016, Pages 9662-9668

  Pan, Ming ^a   Cai, Xitian ^a   Chaney, Nathaniel W ^b   Entekhabi, Dara ^c   Wood, Eric F ^a  

^a Princeton University   (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Massachusetts Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

land surface model; remote sensing; SMAP; soil moisture

Indexed keywords

FORESTRY; REMOTE SENSING; SURFACE MEASUREMENT;

CANADIAN BOREAL FOREST; HIGH-RESOLUTION MODELS; IN-SITU OBSERVATIONS; LAND SURFACE MODELING; METEOROLOGICAL FORCING; SMAP; SOIL MOISTURE ACTIVE PASSIVE (SMAP); SOIL MOISTURE RETRIEVALS;

SOIL MOISTURE;

BOREAL FOREST; CLIMATE FORCING; DATA ASSIMILATION; ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT; LAND DEGRADATION; LAND SURFACE; MOUNTAIN REGION; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE MISSION; SOIL MOISTURE;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 84988908529     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2016GL069964     Document Type: Article

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