Validation of the Soil Moisture Active Passive mission using USDA-ARS experimental watersheds

Michael H Cosh1, Thomas J Jackson2, Rajat Bindlish3, Andreas Colliander4, Seungbum Kim4, Narendra N Das5, Simon H Yueh6, David D Bosch7, David C Goodrich8, John H Prueger9, Patrick j Starks10, Stanley Livingston11, Mark S Seyfried12 and Evan J Coopersmith13, (1)U. S. Department of Agriculture, Beltsville, United States, (2)USDA ARS, Pendleton, OR, United States, (3)Science Systems and Applications, Inc., Lanham, MD, United States, (4)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (5)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Water and Carbon Cycle Group, Pasadena, CA, United States, (6)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, (7)USDA, ARS, Tifton, United States, (8)USDA-ARS Southwest Watershed Research Center, Tucson, AZ, United States, (9)USDA ARS, Beltsville, MD, United States, (10)USDA-ARS, El Reno, OK, United States, (11)USDA, ARS, National Soil Erorion Research Lab, West Lafayette, IN, United States, (12)USDA-ARS, Northwest Watershed Research Center, Boise, United States, (13)USDA Beltsville Agricultural Research Center, Beltsville, MD, United States