Global soil moisture dry-down analysis based on SMAP retrievals
Hui Lu1, Wei Wang2, Bin Peng3,4, Dara Entekhabi5, Ming Pan6, Kaighin A Mccoll5, Ruzbeh Akbar5 and Tianjie Zhao3, (1)Tsinghua University, Department of Earth System Science, Beijing, China, (2)Tsinghua University, Center for Earth System Science, Beijing, China, (3)Institute of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, (4)University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) and Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences (NRES), Urbana, IL, United States, (5)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Cambridge, MA, United States, (6)Center for Western Weather and Water Extremes (CW3E), Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, United States