Soil Moisture and Soil Temperature Observations and Applications: A Joint U.S. Climate Reference Network (USCRN) - National Integrated Drought Information System (NIDIS) Workshop Oak Ridge, TN, March 3-5, 2009.

摘要

The workshop was convened by Bruce Baker (NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC) and Tilden Meyers (NOAA/OAR/ATDD) to provide a forum for discussing issues related to the installation of soil moisture, soil temperature and relative humidity instruments for the USCRN stations in FY09-11. The goal of the workshop was to gain knowledge and information from existing networks, determine an optimal configuration (depths, replication, placement), discuss products and user data needs for operations and research, understand ancillary data and metadata options (e.g., soil classification, infiltration rates, etc.), refine QA/QC procedures, review sampling protocols, explore the idea of a soil moisture/temperature testbed, and address the issue of station representativeness for the remote sensing and modeling communities.