Simulating AOGCM Soil Moisture Using an Off-Line Thornthwaite Potential Evapotranspiration–Based Land Surface Scheme. Part I: Control Runs

An EKF assimilation of AMSR-E soil moisture into the ISBA land surface scheme

[1] An Extended Kalman Filter (EKF) for the assimilation of remotely sensed nearsurface soil moisture into the Interactions between Surface, Biosphere, and Atmosphere (ISBA) model is described. ISBA is the land surface scheme in Météo-France’s Aire Limitée Adaptation Dynamique développement InterNational (ALADIN) Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP) model, and this work is directed toward providi...

Using remotely sensed soil moisture for land–atmosphere coupling diagnostics: The role of surface vs. root-zone soil moisture variability

On the Nature of Soil Moisture in Land Surface Models

Estimating Surface Soil Moisture Using Radarsat-2

Extremes in soil moisture, either too much or too little, present a significant risk to agricultural productivity. Managing and mitigating risk requires information and knowledge to assess risk potential, implement risk reduction strategies and deliver responses to this risk. Synthetic aperture radars (SARs) are sensitive to the dielectric properties of soils and are thus well suited to provide...

Simulating of Land Surface Soil Moisture and Energy Flux in Northern Africa Using a Land Data Assimilation System and Ukmo Output

1Member of JSCE, Ph.D., Researcher, Dept. of Civil Eng., Univ. of Tokyo (Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8656, Japan) 2Member of JSCE, Dr. Eng., Professor, Dept. of Civil Eng., Univ. of Tokyo (Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8656, Japan) 3Member of JSCE, Ph.D., Professor, Inst. of Tibetan Plateau Research, CAS (Beijing 100085, China) 4Ph.D., Professor, Cold and Arid Regions Envi. and Eng. Research Inst., CAS (Lanzho...