Developing a drought-monitoring index for the contiguous US using SMAP

<p>Since April 2015, NASA's Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) mission has monitored near-surface soil moisture, mapping the globe (between 85.044<span class="inline-formula"><sup>∘</sup></span>&thinsp;N/S) using an L-band (1.4&thinsp;GHz) microw...

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Main Authors: S. Sadri, E. F. Wood, M. Pan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Copernicus Publications 2018-12-01
Series:Hydrology and Earth System Sciences
Online Access:https://www.hydrol-earth-syst-sci.net/22/6611/2018/hess-22-6611-2018.pdf