Global Soil Moisture Data Bank

Department of Environmental Sciences
Rutgers-The State University of New Jersey 

    Model Calculations (not actual observations):

    Mintz and Serafini calculation 

      using a bucket model. Description of file.  Click here for files.

    Schemm et al. calculation

      using a bucket model. Click here for GrADS control file. For GrADS binary file, obtain tbgev.b1979.e1992.Z  from ftp://ftp.ncep.noaa.gov/pub/cpc/schemm/ 
      Click here for comparison of these model outputs with observations. (from Robock et al., 1998)

    Model Calculated "Data Set" by Schnur and Lettenmaier

      using the VIC-2L model

    Model Calculated Climatology by Willmott and Matsuura

      contains global coverage of monthly air temperature, precipitation, and water-budget data

    Soil Moisture Monitoring and Prediction over the USA by Huang and van den Dool

      estimated by a one-layer hydrological model

    Land Data Assimilation System (LDAS)

      using several land surface models


Prepared by Alan Robock (robock@envsci.rutgers.edu)
Last updated on August 6, 2004