Multisensor historical climatology of satellite‐derived global land surface moisture
Goddard Space Flight Center · Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Abstract
A historical climatology of continuous satellite‐derived global land surface soil moisture is being developed. The data consist of surface soil moisture retrievals derived from all available historical and active satellite microwave sensors, including Nimbus‐7 Scanning Multichannel Microwave Radiometer, Defense Meteorological Satellites Program Special Sensor Microwave Imager, Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission Microwave Imager, and Aqua Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer for EOS, and span the period from November 1978 through the end of 2007. This new data set is a global product and is consistent in its retrieval approach for the entire period of data record. The moisture retrievals are made with a…
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- Remote sensing
- Environmental science
- Radiometer
- Satellite
- Special sensor microwave/imager
- Microwave
- Microwave radiometer
- Meteorology