Soil Moisture Datasets

[EliasMassoud1]

Global

• SMAP Level 4 (Reichle et al. 2022. https://nsidc.org/data/spl4smgp/versions/7 and https://nsidc.org/sites/default/files/documents/technical-reference/smap_l4v7_sm_assessmtreport.pdf)
• ERA5 (https://cds.climate.copernicus.eu/cdsapp#/dataset/reanalysis-era5-single-levels-monthly-means?tab=overview, June 2021, Copernicus Climate Change Service, 2017)
• MERRA2 (https://disc.gsfc.nasa.gov/datasets?project=MERRA-2, GMAO 2015a, b, c)
• ESA-CCI (https://esa-soilmoisture-cci.org/, Dorigo et al., 2017; Gruber et al., 2019; Preimesberger et al., 2021)
• Wang2021 (Wang, Y., Mao, J., et al. 2021. https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-13-4385-2021. https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-13-4385-2021 )
• Fang et al 2021 (A global 1-km downscaled SMAP soil moisture product based on thermal inertia theory. DOI: 10.1002/vzj2.20182

Continental

• US dataset (Ning, Fisher) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2023.130010