Articles | Volume 21, issue 12
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-21-6329-2017
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-21-6329-2017
Research article
 | 
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

Download

Interactive discussion

Status: closed
Status: closed
AC: Author comment | RC: Referee comment | SC: Short comment | EC: Editor comment
Printer-friendly Version - Printer-friendly version Supplement - Supplement

Peer-review completion

AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision
ED: Reconsider after major revisions (further review by Editor and Referees) (26 Jul 2017) by Kerstin Stahl
AR by Carmelo Cammalleri on behalf of the Authors (16 Aug 2017)  Author's response   Manuscript 
ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (29 Aug 2017) by Kerstin Stahl
RR by Anonymous Referee #2 (04 Oct 2017)
ED: Publish subject to technical corrections (29 Oct 2017) by Kerstin Stahl
AR by Carmelo Cammalleri on behalf of the Authors (02 Nov 2017)  Manuscript 
Download
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.