Potential and limitations of multidecadal satellite soil moisture observations for selected climate model evaluation studies

Based on rainfall, soil evaporation, tran- spiration, runo ff and soil moisture measurements, a water balance model has been developed to simulate soil moisture variations over

Three different data products from the SMOS mission are assimilated separately into the GEOS-5 land surface model to improve estimates of surface and root-zone soil moisture and

Soil moisture time series, SCAN site 2015, New Mex- ico (USA), actual soil moisture (blue line), diagnostic soil moisture equation estimate (red line), and diagnostic soil

and Wood, E.: The assimilation of remotely sensed soil brightness temperature im- agery into a land surface model using ensemble Kalman filtering: a case study based on

soil moisture, soil temperature, net radiation and heat fluxes (latent, sensible and ground heat fluxes) at land surface. Temperature and moisture of the surface 2.5 cm soil

Using satellite-based MODIS data (land surface temperature data, EVI, etc.), and ground-based on-site soil moisture data and meteorological data (air tempera- ture, relative

However, in case of observations with uncertainties <4 vol.%, the obtained model predictions are in considerable agreement with those obtained from the open loop simulations

simulations include those using information from: in-situ measurements; MERRA reanalysis soil moisture (MSM), soil temperature (MST), surface wind velocity (MSW) or model simulated