Articles | Volume 13, issue 9
https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-13-4385-2021
https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-13-4385-2021
Data description paper
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07 Sep 2021
Data description paper |  | 07 Sep 2021

Development of observation-based global multilayer soil moisture products for 1970 to 2016

Yaoping Wang, Jiafu Mao, Mingzhou Jin, Forrest M. Hoffman, Xiaoying Shi, Stan D. Wullschleger, and Yongjiu Dai

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We developed seven global soil moisture datasets (1970–2016, monthly, half-degree, and multilayer) by merging a wide range of data sources, including in situ and satellite observations, reanalysis, offline land surface model simulations, and Earth system model simulations. Given the great value of long-term, multilayer, gap-free soil moisture products to climate research and applications, we believe this paper and the presented datasets would be of interest to many different communities.
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