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@ARTICLE{Lievens:811707,
author = {Lievens, H. and De Lannoy, G. J. M. and Al Bitar, A. and
Drusch, M. and Dumedah, G. and Hendricks-Franssen,
Harrie-Jan and Kerr, Y. H. and Tomer, S. K. and Martens, B.
and Merlin, O. and Pan, M. and Roundy, J. K. and Vereecken,
H. and Walker, J. P. and Wood, E. F. and Verhoest, N. E. C.
and Pauwels, V. R. N.},
title = {{A}ssimilation of {SMOS} soil moisture and brightness
temperature products into a land surface model},
journal = {Remote sensing of environment},
volume = {180},
issn = {0034-4257},
address = {Amsterdam [u.a.]},
publisher = {Elsevier Science},
reportid = {FZJ-2016-04091},
pages = {292 - 304},
year = {2016},
abstract = {The Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) mission has the
potential to improve the predictive skill of land surface
models through the assimilation of its observations. Several
alternate products can be distinguished: the observed
brightness temperature (TB) data at coarse scale, indirect
estimates of soil moisture (SM) through the inversion of the
coarse-scale TB observations, and fine-scale soil moisture
through the a priori downscaling of coarse-scale soil
moisture. The SMOS TB products include observations over a
large range of incidence angles at both H- and
V-polarizations, which allows the merit of assimilating the
full set of multi-angular/polarization observations, as
opposed to specific sub-sets of observations, to be
assessed. This study investigates the performance of various
observation scenarios with respect to soil moisture and
streamflow predictions in the Murray Darling Basin. The
observations are assimilated into the Variable Infiltration
Capacity (VIC) model, coupled to the Community Microwave
Emission Modeling (CMEM) platform, using the Ensemble Kalman
filter. The assimilation of these various observation
products is assessed under similar realistic assimilation
settings, without optimization, and validated by comparison
of the modeled soil moisture and streamflow to in situ
measurements across the basin. The best results are achieved
from assimilation of the coarse-scale SM observations. The
reduced improvement using downscaled SM is probably due to a
lower number of observations, as a result of cloud cover
effects on the downscaling method. The assimilation of TB
was found to be a promising alternative, which led to
improvements in soil moisture prediction approaching those
of the coarse-scale SM assimilation},
cin = {IBG-3},
ddc = {050},
cid = {I:(DE-Juel1)IBG-3-20101118},
pnm = {255 - Terrestrial Systems: From Observation to Prediction
(POF3-255)},
pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF3-255},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)16},
UT = {WOS:000376801000023},
doi = {10.1016/j.rse.2015.10.033},
url = {https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/811707},
}