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Building a Coordinated National Soil Moisture Monitoring Network

Document Author

Steven Quiring / Texas A&M and Jessica Lucido / USGS

Document File

Building a Coordinated National Soil Moisture Monitoring Network (1.24 MB)

Document Date

May 24, 2016

Document Type

Presentations

Document Description

Pilot projects with the goal of creating a map of percentile ranking of current volumetric water content (VWC) at discrete and common depths, related to 30 year record – a request posed by a U.S. Drought Monitor author – and associated challenges and opportunities.

Title slide from presentation on Building a Coordinated National Soil Moisture Monitoring Network showing title, author and workshop names, and NIDIS, USDA, USGS, and Texas A&M University