NASA-USDA-FAS Soil Moisture/IMERG 

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. 


For more information: svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4443 

#Bolten, J. D., and W. T. Crow (2012), Improved prediction of quasi-global vegetation conditions using remotely-sensed surface soil moisture, Geophys. Res. Lett., 39, L19406, doi:10.1029/2012GL053470 
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