Soil Moisture Assimilation Using a Modified Ensemble Transform Kalman Filter Based on Station Observations in the Hai River Basin

Table 3

The time-mean values of observed and simulated soil moisture in the observation layers, as well as the corresponding time-mean RMSEs.

	5 cm	10 cm	20 cm	40 cm	60 cm	100 cm	Mean
Observed soil moisture	18.51	19.92	26.92	28.99	29.44	29.06	25.47
Simulated soil moisture	26.67	27.58	28.19	32.39	34.19	34.72	30.62
RMSE	5.80	4.29	7.53	11.38	4.88	3.27	6.19