Evolution of the ESA CCI Soil Moisture climate data records and their underlying merging methodology

Gruber, Alexander; Scanlon, Tracy; van der Schalie, Robin; Wagner, Wolfgang; Dorigo, Wouter

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-11-717-2019

Articles | Volume 11, issue 2

https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-11-717-2019

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https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-11-717-2019

© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
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Articles | Volume 11, issue 2

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23 May 2019

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| 23 May 2019

Evolution of the ESA CCI Soil Moisture climate data records and their underlying merging methodology

Alexander Gruber, Tracy Scanlon, Robin van der Schalie, Wolfgang Wagner, and Wouter Dorigo

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RC1: 'review', Anonymous Referee #1, 04 Mar 2019
RC2: 'Interactive comment on "Evolution of the ESA CCI Soil Moisture Climate Data Records and their underlying merging methodology"', Amen Al-Yaari, 17 Mar 2019
RC3: 'Comment on the manuscript by Gruber et al.2019 for ESSD', Anonymous Referee #3, 22 Mar 2019
AC1: 'Responses to reviewer comments', Alexander Gruber, 07 May 2019

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Soil moisture is a key variable in our Earth system. Knowledge of soil moisture and its dynamics across scales is vital for many applications such as the prediction of agricultural yields or irrigation demands, flood and drought monitoring, weather forecasting and climate modelling. To date, the ESA CCI SM products are the only consistent long-term multi-satellite soil moisture data sets available. This paper reviews the evolution of these products and their underlying merging methodology.