Articles | Volume 5, issue 1
https://doi.org/10.5194/gi-5-95-2016
https://doi.org/10.5194/gi-5-95-2016
Research article
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29 Apr 2016
Research article |  | 29 Apr 2016

The Sodankylä in situ soil moisture observation network: an example application of ESA CCI soil moisture product evaluation

Jaakko Ikonen, Juho Vehviläinen, Kimmo Rautiainen, Tuomo Smolander, Juha Lemmetyinen, Simone Bircher, and Jouni Pulliainen

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A comprehensive, distributed network of in situ measurement stations gathering information on soil moisture has been set up in recent years at the Finnish Meteorological Institute's (FMI) Sodankylä Arctic research station. The network is used as a tool to evaluate the validity of satellite retrievals of soil properties. We present the soil moisture observation network and the results of comparisons of top layer soil moisture between 2012 and 2014 against ESA CCI product soil moisture retrievals.