Development and Application of Improved Long-Term Datasets of Surface Hydrology for Texas

Table 3

Validation results for the simulated soil moisture.

Error metrics; (daily, 2003–2010)	OBS 5 cm (top layer)		OBS 25 cm (second layer)
	SIM	L13	SIM	L13
	0.75	0.73	0.75	0.71
RMSE (m^3m^−3)	0.0349	0.0421	0.0206	0.0285
Bias (m^3m^−3)	0.0313	0.0395	−0.0146	−0.0185
(%)	16.70	21.13	−6.42	−8.11

Simulated results from this study.