SMOSMANIA

    Country France
    Stations 22
    Organisation CNRM/GAME, METEO-FRANCE, CRNS
    Contacts Jean-Christophe Calvet
    Website http://www.hymex.org
    Official References

    Calvet, J.-C., Fritz, N., Berne, C., Piguet, B., Maurel, W. & Meurey, C. (2016), ‘Deriving pedotransfer functions for soil quartz fraction in southern france from reverse modeling’, SOIL 2(4), 615–629, https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-2-615-2016;

    Albergel, C., Rüdiger, C., Pellarin, T., Calvet, J.-C., Fritz, N., Froissard, F., Suquia, D., Petitpa, A., Piguet, B., and Martin, E.: From near-surface to
    root-zone soil moisture using an exponential filter: an assessment of the method based
    on insitu observations and model simulations, Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 12, 1323–1337, 2008, https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-12-1323-2008;

    Calvet, J.-C., Fritz, N., Froissard, F., Suquia, D., Petitpa, A., and Piguet, B.: In situ soil moisture observations for the CAL/VAL of SMOS: the SMOSMANIA network, International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, IGARSS, Barcelona, Spain, 23-28 July 2007, 1196-1199, https://doi.org/10.1109/IGARSS.2007.4423019, 2007.;

    Variables measured soil moisture
    soil temperature
    Depths of soil moisture measurements 0.05 - 0.05 m
    0.10 - 0.10 m
    0.20 - 0.20 m
    0.30 - 0.30 m
    Soil Moisture sensors used ThetaProbe ML2X
    ThetaProbe ML3
    Data availability from 2007-01-01 to 2024-01-01

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