The Sodankylä in situ soil moisture observation network: an example application of ESA CCI soil moisture product evaluation

Ikonen, Jaakko; Vehviläinen, Juho; Rautiainen, Kimmo; Smolander, Tuomo; Lemmetyinen, Juha; Bircher, Simone; Pulliainen, Jouni

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/gi-5-95-2016

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29 Apr 2016

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| 29 Apr 2016

The Sodankylä in situ soil moisture observation network: an example application of ESA CCI soil moisture product evaluation

Jaakko Ikonen, Juho Vehviläinen, Kimmo Rautiainen, Tuomo Smolander, Juha Lemmetyinen, Simone Bircher, and Jouni Pulliainen

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RC C175: 'Review of “The Sodankylä in-situ soil moisture observation network: an example application to Earth Observation data product evaluation”', Anonymous Referee #1, 04 Feb 2016
- AC C202: 'Authors Response to Referee #1 Interactive Comments on Ikonen et al.', Jaakko Ikonen, 25 Feb 2016
RC C182: 'Comments on gi-2015-24', Richard Ellis, 09 Feb 2016
- AC C212: 'Authors Response to Referee #2 Interactive Comments on Ikonen et al.', Jaakko Ikonen, 25 Feb 2016
RC C185: 'Review of paper on Sodankyla in situ soil moisture network', Anonymous Referee #3, 09 Feb 2016
- AC C216: 'Authors Response to Referee #3 Interactive Comments on Ikonen et al.', Jaakko Ikonen, 25 Feb 2016
AC C208: 'Authors Response to Referee #2 Interactive Comments on Ikonen et al.', Jaakko Ikonen, 25 Feb 2016

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A comprehensive, distributed network of in situ measurement stations gathering information on soil moisture has been set up in recent years at the Finnish Meteorological Institute's (FMI) Sodankylä Arctic research station. The network is used as a tool to evaluate the validity of satellite retrievals of soil properties. We present the soil moisture observation network and the results of comparisons of top layer soil moisture between 2012 and 2014 against ESA CCI product soil moisture retrievals.