Average rainfall 2001-2016, global tropics

Map: Average rainfall 2001-2016, global tropics

Adjust MODIS TWI with SMAP - results

This post presents graphics for the assimilation of MODIS derived soil moisture estimates with soil moisture estimated from SMAP. The methods for deriving the images and movies are presented in the previous post.

Below you can watch a movie that compares SMAP and TWI, both at approximately 9 km spatial resolution, for the whole of Sub Saharan Africa. Under the following links you can view movies representing each MODIS SINgrid tile. Each of these movies show SMAP and MODIS TWI and two versions of assimilation of MODIS TWI to SMAP.

SMAP (top) versus MODIS TWI (bottom) soil moisture estimates for Sub-Saharan Africa 2015 to 2018