A Preliminary Assessment of the Impact of Assimilating Satellite Soil Moisture Data Products on NCEP Global Forecast System

Figure 1

The first layer (0–10 cm) soil moisture (fractional) over the CONUS at 18:00 UTC, averaged temporally over the period of 1 April to 5 May 2012 from the SMOPS blended product (a), the GFS-CTL (b), and the difference of CTL and EnKF (c).

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