Articles | Volume 28, issue 21
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-28-4819-2024
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-28-4819-2024
Research article
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06 Nov 2024
Research article |  | 06 Nov 2024

Mapping soil moisture across the UK: assimilating cosmic-ray neutron sensors, remotely sensed indices, rainfall radar and catchment water balance data in a Bayesian hierarchical model

Peter E. Levy and the COSMOS-UK team

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Having accurate up-to-date maps of soil moisture is important for many purposes. However, current modelled and remotely sensed maps are rather coarse and not very accurate. Here, we demonstrate a simple but accurate approach that is closely linked to direct measurements of soil moisture at a network sites across the UK, to the water balance (precipitation minus drainage and evaporation) measured at a large number of catchments (1212) and to remotely sensed satellite estimates.
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