NASA-USDA-FAS Soil Moisture / IMERG

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Soil Moisture / Precipitation in Australia, Absolute

This visualization shows the correlation and lag time of surface soil moisture following precipitation events over Australia, India, and the United States. It uses the new NASA-USDA-FAS Soil Moisture product, a joint effort of NASA and the USDA Foreign Agricultural Service, and the global Integrated Multi-satellitE Retrievals for GPM (IMERG) precipitation dataset, which provides rainfall rates for the entire world every thirty minutes. This animation shows the 30-minute rainfall product, while the soil moisture data is a three-day moving average. Anomaly data is expressed as a standardized anomaly, e.g. (value-average)/stdev, and as such is unitless.


For more detailed information about the soil moisture product:
http://www.pecad.fas.usda.gov/cropexplorer/description.aspx?legendid=355

Bolten, J. D., W. T. Crow, T. J. Jackson, X. Zhan, and C. A. Reynolds (2010), Evaluating the utility of remotely-sensed soil moisture retrievals for operational agricultural drought monitoring, IEEE J. Sel. Topics Appl. Earth Obs., 3(1), 57–66.

Soil Moisture / Precipitation in Australia, Absolute, with Colorbar

Soil Moisture / Precipitation in Australia, Anomaly

Soil Moisture / Precipitation in Australia, Anomaly with Colorbar

Soil Moisture / Precipitation in Australia, Anomaly, Hyperwall Resolution

Soil Moisture / Precipitation in Australia, Anomaly, Hyperwall Resolution

Soil Moisture / Precipitation in India, Absolute

Soil Moisture / Precipitation in India, Absolute with Colorbar

Soil Moisture / Precipitation in India, Anomaly

Soil Moisture / Precipitation in India, Anomaly with Colorbar

Soil Moisture / Precipitation in United States, Absolute

Soil Moisture / Precipitation in United States, Absolute with Colorbar

Soil Moisture / Precipitation in United States, Anomaly

Soil Moisture / Precipitation in United States, Anomaly with Colorbar

Colorbar, Soil Moisture, Absolute

Colorbar, Soil Moisture, Absolute

Colorbar, Soil Moisture, Anomaly

Colorbar, Soil Moisture, Anomaly

Colorbar, IMERG

Colorbar, IMERG

Soil Moisture / Precipitation in Peru, Absolute

Soil Moisture / Precipitation in Peru, Absolute with Colorbar

Soil Moisture / Precipitation in Peru, Anomaly

Soil Moisture / Precipitation in Peru, Anomaly with Colorbar

Soil Moisture / Precipitation over the entire globe, Anomaly with Colorbar

For More Information

See http://www.pecad.fas.usda.gov/cropexplorer/description.aspx?legendid=355

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This page was originally published on Wednesday, March 30, 2016.
This page was last updated on Sunday, March 2, 2025 at 12:06 AM EST.

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