The benefit of brightness temperature assimilation for the SMAP Level-4 surface and root-zone soil moisture analysis

<p>The Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) Level-4 (L4) product provides global estimates of surface soil moisture (SSM) and root-zone soil moisture (RZSM) via the assimilation of SMAP brightness temperature (<span class="inline-formula"><i>T</i><sub>b</sub...

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Main Authors: J. Qiu, J. Dong, W. T. Crow, X. Zhang, R. H. Reichle, G. J. M. De Lannoy
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Copernicus Publications 2021-03-01
Series:Hydrology and Earth System Sciences
Online Access:https://hess.copernicus.org/articles/25/1569/2021/hess-25-1569-2021.pdf