Comparing soil moisture anomalies from multiple independent sources over different regions across the globe

Cammalleri, Carmelo; Vogt, Jürgen V.; Bisselink, Bernard; de Roo, Ad

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-21-6329-2017

Articles | Volume 21, issue 12

https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-21-6329-2017

© Author(s) 2017. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-21-6329-2017

© Author(s) 2017. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 21, issue 12

Research article

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14 Dec 2017

Research article |

| 14 Dec 2017

Comparing soil moisture anomalies from multiple independent sources over different regions across the globe

Carmelo Cammalleri, Jürgen V. Vogt, Bernard Bisselink, and Ad de Roo

Data sets

MODIS MOD15A2H Collection 6 NASA https://e4ftl01.cr.usgs.gov/MOLT/MOD11C3.006/

Short summary

Drought can affect large regions of the world, implying the need for a global monitoring tool. For the JRC Global Drought Observatory (GDO, http://edo.jrc.ec.europa.eu/gdo/), 3 soil moisture anomaly datasets have been compared, in order to evaluate their consistency. The analysis performed on five macro-regions (North America, Europe, India, southern Africa and Australia) suggests the need to combine these different data sources in order to obtain robust assessments over a variety of conditions.