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标题：High-resolution gridded soil moisture and soil temperature datasets for the Indian monsoon region
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作者：H. P. Nayak ; K. K. Osuri ; Palash Sinha 等
期刊名称：Scientific Data
电子版ISSN：2052-4463
出版年度：2018
卷号：5
DOI：10.1038/sdata.2018.264
语种：English
出版社：Nature Publishing Group
摘要：High-resolution soil moisture/temperature (SM/ST) are critical components of the growing demand for fine-scale products over the Indian monsoon region (IMR) which has diverse land-surface characteristics. This demand is fueled by findings that improved representation of land-state help improve rainfall/flood prediction. Here we report on the development of a high-resolution (4鈥塳m and 3 hourly) SM/ST product for 2001鈥?014 during Indian monsoon seasons (June鈥揝eptember). First, the quality of atmospheric fields from five reanalysis sources was examined to identify realistic forcing to a land data assimilation system (LDAS). The evaluation of developed SM/ST against observations highlighted the importance of quality forcing fields. There is a significant relation between the forcing error and the errors in the SM/ST. A combination of forcing fields was used to develop 14-years of SM/ST data. This dataset captured inter-annual, intra-seasonal, and diurnal variations under different monsoon conditions. When the mesoscale model was initialized using the SM/ST data, improved simulations of heavy rain events was evident, demonstrating the value of the data over IMR.