Investigating Baseline, Alternative and Copula-based Algorithm for combining Airborne Active and Passive Microwave Observations in the SMAP Context

Carsten Montzka1, Christof Lorenz2, Thomas Jagdhuber3, Patrick Laux4, Irena Hajnsek5, Harald Kunstmann2, Dara Entekhabi6 and Harry Vereecken7, (1)Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Jülich 52428, Germany, (2)Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany, (3)Institute of Geography, University of Augsburg, Augsburg, Germany, (4)Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Institute for Meteorology and Climate Research (IMK-IFU), Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, (5)ETH Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, (6)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Cambridge, United States, (7)Geoverbund ABC/J, Centre for High-Performance Scientific Computing in Terrestrial Systems (TerrSys), Jülich, Germany