An evaluation of AMSR-E derived soil moisture over Australia |
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Authors: | Clara S. Draper Jeffrey P. Walker Richard A.M. de Jeu |
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Affiliation: | a Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia b Centre for Australian Weather and Climate Research, Australian Government Bureau of Meteorology, Melbourne, Australia c Department of Hydrology and GeoEnvironmental Sciences, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands |
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Abstract: | This paper assesses remotely sensed near-surface soil moisture over Australia, derived from the passive microwave Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer - Earth Observing System (AMSR-E) instrument. Soil moisture fields generated by the AMSR-E soil moisture retrieval algorithm developed at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VUA) in collaboration with NASA have been used in this study, following a preliminary investigation of several other retrieval algorithms. The VUA-NASA AMSR-E near-surface soil moisture product has been compared to in-situ soil moisture data from 12 locations in the Murrumbidgee and Goulburn Monitoring Networks, both in southeast Australia. Temporally, the AMSR-E soil moisture has a strong association to ground-based soil moisture data, with typical correlations of greater than 0.8 and typical RMSD less than 0.03 vol/vol (for a normalized and filtered AMSR-E timeseries). Continental-scale spatial patterns in the VUA-NASA AMSR-E soil moisture have also been visually examined by comparison to spatial rainfall data. The AMSR-E soil moisture has a strong correspondence to precipitation data across Australia: in the short term, maps of the daily soil moisture anomaly show a clear response to precipitation events, and in the longer term, maps of the annual average soil moisture show the expected strong correspondence to annual average precipitation. |
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Keywords: | Passive microwave Soil moisture Remote sensing Australia |
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