Creating a Climate Data Record with Soil Moisture
August 28, 2025
Every gardener knows that the moisture of their soil is key to a rich harvest. But for Earth system scientists, soil moisture can be even
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Improving Soil Moisture Retrieval with AMSR2
July 14, 2023
ESSIC/CISESS scientist Jifu Yin is the first author on a two-part series published in IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing on refining the Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer 2 (AMSR2) soil moisture retrieval algorithm. The paper’s co-authors include ESSIC scientists Jicheng Liu, Huan Meng and Ralph Ferraro.
Assimilation of Blended Satellite Soil Moisture Data Products to Further Improve Noah-MP Model Skills
May 8, 2023
Jifu Yin, Ralph Ferraro, and Jicheng Liu are authors on a new paper in Journal of Hydrology
titled “Assimilation of Blended Satellite Soil Moisture Data Products to Further Improve Noah-
MP Model Skills”.
A New NOAA Blended Soil Moisture Product that Does Not Rely on Model Climatology
May 3, 2022
ESSIC/CISESS Scientists Jifu Yin, Jicheng Liu and Ralph Ferraro published a new article last month that discussed their work with NOAA’s Soil Moisture Operational Product System (SMOPS). SMOPS is developed by National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to provide the real time blended soil moisture (SM) for Numeric Weather Prediction and National Water Model applications.
Remote Sensing of Evapotranspiration for Global Drought Monitoring
October 1, 2021
ESSIC/CISESS scientists Li Fang, Jifu Yin, Mitchell Schull, and Jicheng Liu collaborated on a chapter in Global Drought and Flood: Observation, Modeling, and Prediction titled “Remote Sensing of Evapotranspiration for Global Drought Monitoring”.
A Study of Two Impactful Heavy Rainfall Events
July 9, 2021
Several ESSIC/CISESS scientists including Malarvizhi Arulraj, Jifu Yin, Christopher Grassotti, Veljko Petkovic collaborated on a multi-author, two-part study led by Douglas Miller, Professor of Atmospheric Sciences at the University of North Carolina, Asheville.
Yin Develops Near Real Time 1KM SMAP Soil Moisture Data Product
October 23, 2020
A paper titled “Near‐real‐time one‐kilometre Soil Moisture Active Passive soil moisture data product” co-authored by ESSIC/CISESS Assistant Research Scientist Jifu Yin was recently published by
Yin Published on Soil Moisture Operation Product System
October 5, 2020
A paper co-authored by ESSIC/CISESS Assistant Research Scientist Jifu Yin titled “NOAA Satellite Soil Moisture Operational Product System (SMOPS) Version 3.0 Generates Higher Accuracy Blended Satellite Soil Moisture” was recently published in Remote Sensing.
