Towards an Australian Root Zone Soil Moisture Product

Importance of Soil Moisture

Drought Monitoring

Climate Modelling

The Problem With LSMs

GCM Requirements & LSM Estimates

The Situation

Soil Moisture Modelling

Catchment-based LSM

Catchment Discretisation

Tier 1: Better Forcing

Soil Moisture Modelling

Near-Surface Soil Moisture
Remote Sensing: Historic

Soil Moisture Coverage: Veg (Mean PR)

Tier 2: Assimilation

SMMR Assimilation

Root Zone Moisture Comparison

Comparison With NDVI Data

Drought of 1982/83

AMSR-E Validation

Australian Validation Sites

GRACE: Gravity Recovery And Climate Experiment

GRACE: Gravity Recovery And Climate Experiment

Study Area: Murrumbidgee

A Vision for the Future