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Evaluation of the RF-Based Downscaled SMAP and SMOS Products Using Multi-Source Data over an Alpine Mountains Basin, Northwest China

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العنوان: Evaluation of the RF-Based Downscaled SMAP and SMOS Products Using Multi-Source Data over an Alpine Mountains Basin, Northwest China
المؤلفون: Yuanyuan Wen, Jun Zhao, Guofeng Zhu, Ri Xu, Jianxia Yang
المصدر: Water, Vol 13, Iss 20, p 2875 (2021)
بيانات النشر: MDPI AG, 2021.
سنة النشر: 2021
المجموعة: LCC:Hydraulic engineering
LCC:Water supply for domestic and industrial purposes
مصطلحات موضوعية: downscaling, random forest, SMAP, SMOS, surface soil moisture, triple collocation, Hydraulic engineering, TC1-978, Water supply for domestic and industrial purposes, TD201-500
الوصف: Passive microwave surface soil moisture (SSM) products tend to have very low resolution, which massively limits their application and validation in regional or local-scale areas. Many climate and hydrological studies are urgently needed to evaluate the suitability of satellite SSM products, especially in alpine mountain areas where soil moisture plays a key role in terrestrial atmospheric exchanges. Aiming to overcome this limitation, a downscaling method based on random forest (RF) was proposed to disaggregate satellite SSM products. We compared the ability of the downscaled soil moisture active passive (SMAP) SSM and soil moisture and ocean salinity satellite (SMOS) SSM products to capture soil moisture information in upstream of the Heihe River Basin by using in situ measurements, the triple collocation (TC) method and temperature vegetation dryness index (TVDI). The results showed that the RF downscaling method has strong applicability in the study area, and the downscaled results of the two products after residual correction have more details, which can better represent the spatial distribution of soil moisture. The validation with the in situ SSM measurements indicates that the correlation between downscaled SMAP and in situ SSM is better than downscaled SMOS at both point and watershed scales in the Babaohe River Basin. From the TC method, the root mean square error (RMSE) of the CLDAS (CMA land data assimilation system), downscaled SMAP and downscaled SMOS were 0.0265, 0.0255 and 0.0317, respectively, indicating that the downscaled SMAP has smaller errors in the study area than others. However, the soil moisture distribution in the study area shown by the SMOS downscaled results is closer than the downscaled SMAP to the degree of drought reflected by TVDI. Overall, this study suggests that the proposed RF-based downscaling method can capture the variation of SSM well, and the downscaled SMAP products perform significantly better than the downscaled SMOS products after the accuracy verification and error analysis of the downscaled results, and it should be helpful to facilitate applications for satellite SSM products at small scales.
نوع الوثيقة: article
وصف الملف: electronic resource
اللغة: English
تدمد: 2073-4441
Relation: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4441/13/20/2875; https://doaj.org/toc/2073-4441
DOI: 10.3390/w13202875
URL الوصول: https://doaj.org/article/3acde8773a7e49c285c50c6082f46115
رقم الأكسشن: edsdoj.3acde8773a7e49c285c50c6082f46115
قاعدة البيانات: Directory of Open Access Journals
الوصف
تدمد:20734441
DOI:10.3390/w13202875