Sentences with phrase «satellite soil moisture»

Source: C3S satellite soil moisture product.

Evaluation of C3S satellite soil moisture against sets of ground - based measurements shows that it captures temporal dynamics, but with large variations in quality through space and time (Dorigo et al. 2017, Dorigo et.

For the C3S satellite soil moisture record the anomaly is calculated with respect to 1991 - 2016.

The maps are based on pre-release data from the C3S satellite soil moisture service.

The higher resolution of E-OBS shows a large positive precipitation anomaly over the Alps and the satellite soil moisture product shows above average soil moisture for a larger region than ERA - Interim.

Trend assessments based on C3S satellite soil moisture should be treated with caution owing to dataset properties changing over time, and the inability to observe beneath dense vegetation, for mountain areas, or frozen or snow - covered soils.

The use of the C3S satellite soil moisture product complements this analysis, by providing an independent source of information.

Due to sparse data cover of this product in some of the European domain, the C3S satellite soil moisture product is not used for trend assessments.

Soil moisture anomaly for winter, spring, summer and autumn 2017 relative to the respective seasonal average for the period 1981 - 2010 for ERA - Interim (left) and for the period 1991 - 2016 for C3S satellite soil moisture (right).

Average spring (March - May 2017) soil moisture anomaly, from left to right ERA - Interim relative to the 1982 - 2010 average, ERA - Interim relative to the 1991 - 2016 average and C3S satellite soil moisture product relative to 1991 - 2016.

Data Source: ERA - Interim (left), C3S satellite soil moisture product (right).

The anomalies from the C3S satellite soil moisture product are defined with respect to a shorter and more recent reference period than ERA - Interim anomalies.

This positive anomaly is not present in the C3S satellite soil moisture product.

Not exact matches

The satellite — SMAP, or the Soil Moisture Active Passive — has been in development for more than two decades.

The satellite will pulse at the Earth microwaves that will bounce off the moisture contained within soil.

Scientists are hoping that newer satellites, like Europe's Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity or NASA's Soil Moisture Active Passive, can start to accumulate long - time series of soil moisture dSoil Moisture and Ocean Salinity or NASA's Soil Moisture Active Passive, can start to accumulate long - time series of soil moistuMoisture and Ocean Salinity or NASA's Soil Moisture Active Passive, can start to accumulate long - time series of soil moisture dSoil Moisture Active Passive, can start to accumulate long - time series of soil moistuMoisture Active Passive, can start to accumulate long - time series of soil moisture dsoil moisturemoisture data.

Researchers used two methods to track groundwater levels, traditional water balance estimates — which take into account surface water inflow like rainfall and snow melt, soil moisture capacity and evapotranspiration — and data from NASA's twin satellite system called GRACE (Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment).

The system uses satellite observations of the timing and intensity of vegetation activity and how this relates to temperature and soil moisture to classify the world's vegetation into 24 biome types.

To do so, Ichoku and his colleagues used satellite records from 2001 to 2014 — including data from NASA's Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer and the Tropical Rainfall Measurement Mission — to analyze the impact of fires on various water cycle indicators, namely soil moisture, precipitation, evapotranspiration and vegetation greenness.

NASA mission controllers have successfully deployed the Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) observatory's reflector antenna, in what is an important step along the road towards the satellite becoming fully operational.

A number of existing satellites can be used for the task; these include the European Space Agency's Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) sensor that was launched in 2009 and NASA's Aquarius satellite that was launched in 2011.

While the satellite - based GRACE soil moisture is ABOVE normal over most areas east of the Cascade crest

In particular, our team is strongly involved in the scientific algorithm development and data exploitation of the ESA's Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) satellite mission.

But observations suggest otherwise: «We have analyzed data from different satellites measuring soil moisture and precipitation all over the globe, with a resolution of 50 to 100 kilometers.

The Copernicus Climate Change Service will also produce analyses of soil moisture based directly on satellite data as part of its programme for sustaining the production and updating of Essential Climate Variable datasets.

The unique Sodankylä ground measurement network is utilized in the quality control of the global satellite - based monitoring of soil moisture and frost

During spring the soil moisture south of the Baltic Sea further increased, which can be seen particularly clearly in the satellite measurements.

Aqua, Latin for water, is a NASA Earth Science satellite mission named for the large amount of information that the mission will be collecting about the Earth's water cycle, including evaporation from the oceans, water vapor in the atmosphere, clouds, precipitation, soil moisture, sea ice, land ice, and snow cover on the land and ice.

CMIS represented the state of the art in satellite microwave radiometers and was intended to continue, with a higher degree of accuracy and resolution, the time series of many fundamental climate variables, including SST and wind, sea ice and snow coverage, soil moisture, and atmospheric moisture (vapor, clouds, and rain).

Starting with Terra in 1999, NASA has launched a fleet of Earth - observing satellites that collect data on everything from temperature and precipitation to underground aquifers and ocean currents and soil moisture to wildfires and storms.

Aires, F., C. Prigent, and W.B. Rossow, 2005: Sensitivity of satellite microwave and infrared observations to soil moisture at a global scale: 2.

Prigent, C., F. Aires, W.B. Rossow, and A. Robock, 2005: Sensitivity of satellite microwave and infrared observations to soil moisture at a global scale: Relationship of satellite observations to in situ soil moisture measurements.

A decision framework is developed for quantifying the economic value of information (VOI) from the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) satellite mission for drought monitoring, with a focus on the potential contributions of groundwater storage and soil moisture measurements from the GRACE data assimilation (GRACE - DA) system.