Soil Moisture Data
Assimilation
Using the 1D EKF
Land Surface
Initialization for Seasonal-to-Interannual Prediction
Tier 1: Better Forcing
Tier 2: Assimilation
Why Assimilate?
Importance of Soil
Moisture
SMMR Polarization Ratio
(Mean)
SMMR Polarization Ratio
(Std Dev)
Synthetic Demonstration
Mission Requirements
Moisture Retrieval
Algorithm
Global Day-Time Maps
Soil Moisture Time
Series: Illinois
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Soil Moisture: Lat 50,
Lon -100
Evaluation of
Assimilation
Outlook