NASA's Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) Mission and Opportunities for Applications Users

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Brown, Molly E.; Escobar, Vanessa; Moran, Susan; Entekhabi, Dara; O'Neill, Peggy E.; ... Show more
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Abstract
Water in the soil—both its amount (soil moisture) and its state (freeze/thaw)—plays a key role in water and energy cycles, in weather and climate, and in the carbon cycle. Additionally, soil moisture touches upon human lives in a number of ways—from the ravages of flooding to the needs for monitoring agricultural and hydrologic droughts. Because of their relevance to weather, climate, science, and society, accurate and timely measurements of soil moisture and freeze/thaw state with global coverage are critically important.
Date issued
2013-08
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/87781
Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Journal
Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
Publisher
American Meteorological Society
Citation
Brown, Molly E., Vanessa Escobar, Susan Moran, Dara Entekhabi, Peggy E. O’Neill, Eni G. Njoku, Brad Doorn, and Jared K. Entin. “NASA’s Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) Mission and Opportunities for Applications Users.” Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc. 94, no. 8 (August 2013): 1125–1128. © 2013 American Meteorological Society
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0003-0007
1520-0477
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