Global Soil Moisture Data Bank

[Alan Robock <robock@envsci.rutgers.edu>]

[Welcome to Alan and colleagues to sowacs; it looks like an excellent resource:
Bruce]


Hi.  I would like to introduce myself.  I do research on soil moisture
and its relationship to climate change.  I work with Konstantin
Vinnikov, G. Srinivasan, and Lifeng Luo.  We study the temporal and
spatial scales of soil moisture variations, remote sensing of soil
moisture, climate model evaluation, modeling of soil moisture, and
design of soil moisture networks.  Our particular approach is to use
actual measurements of soil moisture for this work.  To that end, we
have established the Global Soil Moisture Data Bank: 

http://climate.envsci.rutgers.edu/soil_moisture/

which contains an archive of over 400 long-term (> 5 years) measurements
of soil moisture.  It also contains a list of our publications and
copies of many of them.  Most of measurements are gravimetric, but some
are neutron probe.

I would like to invite you all to visit the web site, send us any
comments, and especially, to contribute your own data sets so that the
climatological community can use them in our work.  Thanks very much.

Alan

Professor Alan Robock 
Department of Environmental Sciences               Phone: (732) 932-9478
Rutgers - The State University of New Jersey         Fax: (732) 932-8644
14 College Farm Road                   E-mail: robock@envsci.rutgers.edu
New Brunswick, NJ 08901-8551       http://www.envsci.rutgers.edu/~robock