Evaluating the sensitivity of surface soil moisture dynamics to soil profile layering schemes
Peter J Shellito1, Joseph A Santanello Jr2, Sujay V Kumar3, Patricia Lawston Parker1 and Michael H Cosh4, (1)University of Maryland, Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, College Park, MD, United States, (2)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Code 617, Hydrological Sciences Laboratory, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (3)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Hydrological Sciences Laboratory, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (4)U.S. Department of Agriculture ARS, Hydrology and Remote Sensing Laboratory, Beltsville, United States