Articles | Volume 13, issue 6
https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-13-2819-2021
https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-13-2819-2021
Data description paper
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16 Jun 2021
Data description paper |  | 16 Jun 2021

Year-long, broad-band, microwave backscatter observations of an alpine meadow over the Tibetan Plateau with a ground-based scatterometer

Jan G. Hofste, Rogier van der Velde, Jun Wen, Xin Wang, Zuoliang Wang, Donghai Zheng, Christiaan van der Tol, and Zhongbo Su

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AR by Jan Hofste on behalf of the Authors (03 Dec 2020)  Author's response   Manuscript 
ED: Reconsider after major revisions (24 Jan 2021) by Birgit Heim
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ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (review by editor) (18 Apr 2021) by Birgit Heim
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ED: Publish subject to technical corrections (12 May 2021) by Birgit Heim
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The dataset reported in this paper concerns the measurement of microwave reflections from an alpine meadow over the Tibetan Plateau. These microwave reflections were measured continuously over 1 year. With it, variations in soil water content due to evaporation, precipitation, drainage, and soil freezing/thawing can be seen. A better understanding of the effects aforementioned processes have on microwave reflections may improve methods for estimating soil water content used by satellites.