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Soil Moisture
The International Soil Moisture Working Group (ISMWG) was established in 2005 to handle the main objectives of this IGWCO water cycle variable.
The first ISMWG Workshop was held in March 2006. Outcomes included:
- standardization of measurement protocols
- cross-validation among temperature, soil texture/bulk density, gravimetric soil moisture, sensor density/depth, units of representation
- network design, density, linkages, availability of metadata
- formation of task group
The European Space Agency (ESA) Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity Mission (SMOS) Workshop held in May 2006, addressed ways in which this initiative could support the IGWCO. Further, the European Centre for Medium-Range Forecasting (ECMWF) has expressed interest in collaborating by providing model analyses/assimilation products.
The Global Climate Obesrving System (GCOS) has named soil moisture as one of its emerging Essential Climate Variables (ECV) and thus is placing an emphasis on developing an experimental soil-moisture product from existing networks and satellite observations, in collaboration with the IGWCO.
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