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| The Global Soil Moisture Data Bank | |
Robock, A; Vinnikov, KY; Srinivasan, G; Entin, JK; Hollinger, SE; Speranskaya, NA; Liu, SX ; Namkhai, A
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| 2000-06-01 | |
| Source Publication | BULLETIN OF THE AMERICAN METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETY
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| Volume | 81Issue:6Pages:1281-1299 |
| Abstract | Soil moisture is an important variable in the climate system. Understanding and predicting variations of surface temperature, drought, and flood depend critically on knowledge of soil moisture variations, as do impacts of climate change and weather forecasting. An observational dataset of actual in situ measurements is crucial for climatological analysis, for model development and evaluation, and as ground truth for remote sensing. To that end, the Global Soil Moisture Data Bank, a Web site (http://climate.envsci.rutgers.edu/soil_moisture) dedicated to collection, dissemination, and analysis of soil moisture data from around the globe, is described. The data bank currently has soil moisture observations for over 600 stations from a large variety of global climates, including the former Soviet Union, China, Mongolia, India, and the United States. Most of the data are in situ gravimetric observations of soil moisture; all extend for at least 6 years and most for more than 15 years. Most of the stations have grass vegetation, and some are agricultural. The observations have been used to examine the temporal and spatial scales of soil moisture variations, to evaluate Atmospheric Model Intercomparison Project, Project for Intercomparison of Land-Surface Parameterization Schemes, and Global Soil Wetness Project simulations of soil moisture, for remote sensing of soil moisture, for designing new soil moisture observational networks, and to examine soil moisture trends. For the top I-m soil layers, the temporal scale of soil moisture variation at all midlatitude sites is 1.5 to 2 months and the spatial scale is about 500 km. Land surface models, in general, do not capture the observed soil moisture variations when forced with either model-generated or observed meteorology. In contrast to predictions of summer desiccation with increasing temperatures, for the stations with the longest records summer soil moisture in the top 1 m has increased while temperatures have risen. The increasing trend in precipitation more than compensated for the enhanced evaporation. |
| Subtype | Article |
| WOS Headings | Science & Technology ; Physical Sciences |
| WOS Subject Extended | Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences |
| WOS Keyword | SURFACE PARAMETERIZATION SCHEMES ; MODEL INTERCOMPARISON PROJECT ; TEMPERATURE-MEASUREMENTS ; SNOW PARAMETERIZATION ; WETNESS PROJECT ; SIMULATIONS ; VALIDATION ; CLIMATE ; VARIABILITY ; BIOSPHERE |
| Indexed By | SCI |
| Language | 英语 |
| WOS Subject | Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences |
| WOS ID | WOS:000087330300007 |
| Publisher | AMER METEOROLOGICAL SOC |
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| Document Type | 期刊论文 |
| Identifier | http://ir.igsnrr.ac.cn/handle/311030/68260 |
| Collection | 中国科学院地理科学与资源研究所 |
| Corresponding Author | Robock, A |
| Affiliation | 1.Rutgers State Univ, Dept Environm Sci, New Brunswick, NJ 08901 USA 2.Univ Maryland, Dept Meteorol, College Pk, MD 20742 USA 3.NASA, Goddard Space Flight Ctr, Greenbelt, MD 20771 USA 4.Illinois State Water Survey, Champaign, IL 61820 USA 5.State Hydrol Inst, St Petersburg, Russia 6.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Geog, Dept Hydrol, Beijing 100012, Peoples R China 7.Environm COnsulting & Assessment Co, Ulaanbaatar, Mongol Peo Rep |
| Recommended Citation GB/T 7714 | Robock, A,Vinnikov, KY,Srinivasan, G,et al. The Global Soil Moisture Data Bank[J]. BULLETIN OF THE AMERICAN METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETY,2000,81(6):1281-1299. |
| APA | Robock, A.,Vinnikov, KY.,Srinivasan, G.,Entin, JK.,Hollinger, SE.,...&Namkhai, A.(2000).The Global Soil Moisture Data Bank.BULLETIN OF THE AMERICAN METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETY,81(6),1281-1299. |
| MLA | Robock, A,et al."The Global Soil Moisture Data Bank".BULLETIN OF THE AMERICAN METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETY 81.6(2000):1281-1299. |
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