Agricultural Drought Monitoring via the Assimilation of SMAP Soil Moisture Retrievals Into a Global Soil Water Balance Model

From an agricultural perspective, drought refers to an unusual deficiency of plant available water in the root-zone of the soil profile. This paper focuses on evaluating the benefit of assimilating soil moisture retrievals from the Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) mission into the USDA-FAS Palmer...

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Main Authors: Iliana E. Mladenova, John D. Bolten, Wade Crow, Nazmus Sazib, Curt Reynolds
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2020-04-01
Series:Frontiers in Big Data
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fdata.2020.00010/full