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Airborne Microwave Observatory of Subcanopy and Subsurface (AirMOSS)

Overview

[AirMOSS Logo]The NASA Airborne Microwave Observatory of Subcanopy and Subsurface (AirMOSS) investigation provided high-resolution observations of root-zone soil moisture over nine major North American biomes. The campaign goals were to quantify the impact of variations in soil moisture on the estimation of regional carbon fluxes and to extrapolate the reduced-uncertainty estimates of regional carbon fluxes to the continental scale of North America. The AirMOSS campaign used an airborne ultra-high frequency synthetic aperture radar flown on a Gulfstream-III aircraft to derive estimates of soil moisture down to approximately 1.2 meters. Extensive ground, tower, and aircraft in-situ measurements were collected to validate root-zone soil measurements and carbon flux model estimates.


Airborne Microwave Observatory of Subcanopy and Subsurface Datasets List

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Campaign (18 datasets)

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*AirMOSS: In Situ Soil Moisture and Tree Measurements, Harvard Forest, 2012-20132019-11-12 2019-10-30 user guide download 248.5MB
*AirMOSS: L1 S-0 Polarimetric Data from AirMOSS P-band SAR, BERMS, Canada, 2012-20152018-05-01 2016-08-03 user guide thredds
*AirMOSS: L1 S-0 Polarimetric Data from AirMOSS P-band SAR, MOISST, 2012-20152018-05-01 2016-08-08 user guide thredds
*AirMOSS: L1 S-0 Polarimetric Data from AirMOSS P-band SAR, Tonzi Ranch, 2012-20152018-05-01 2016-08-08 user guide thredds
*AirMOSS: L1 S-0 Polarimetric Data from AirMOSS P-band SAR, Walnut Gulch, 2012-20152018-05-01 2016-08-08 user guide thredds
*AirMOSS: L1 S-0 Polarimetric Data from AirMOSS P-band SAR, Chamela, Mexico, 2012-20152018-04-25 2016-08-03 user guide thredds
*AirMOSS: L1 S-0 Polarimetric Data from AirMOSS P-band SAR, Duke Forest, 2012-20152018-04-25 2016-08-04 user guide thredds
*AirMOSS: L1 S-0 Polarimetric Data from AirMOSS P-band SAR, Harvard Forest, 2012-20152018-04-25 2016-08-04 user guide thredds
*AirMOSS: L1 S-0 Polarimetric Data from AirMOSS P-band SAR, Howland Forest, 2012-20152018-04-25 2016-08-04 user guide thredds
*AirMOSS: L1 S-0 Polarimetric Data from AirMOSS P-band SAR, La Selva, 2012-20152018-04-25 2016-08-08 user guide thredds
*AirMOSS: L1 S-0 Polarimetric Data from AirMOSS P-band SAR, Metolius, 2012-20152018-04-25 2016-08-08 user guide thredds
*AirMOSS: L2/3 Volumetric Soil Moisture Profiles Derived From Radar, 2012-20152018-03-06 2016-09-29 user guide download 2.3GBthredds
*AirMOSS: L4 Modeled Volumetric Root Zone Soil Moisture, 2012-20152016-12-15 2016-12-15 user guide thredds
*AirMOSS: L4 Modeled Net Ecosystem Exchange (NEE), Continental USA, 2012-20142016-11-30 2016-11-30 user guide download 23.1MBthredds
*AirMOSS: L4 Daily Modeled Net Ecosystem Exchange (NEE), AirMOSS sites, 2012-20142016-11-22 2016-11-22 user guide download 95.9MBthredds
*AirMOSS: L2 Airborne Carbon Flux at Selected AirMOSS Sites, 2012-20142016-10-11 2016-10-10 user guide download 41.7MB
*AirMOSS: L2 Hourly In-Ground Soil Moisture at AirMOSS Sites, 2011-20152016-09-02 2016-09-02 user guide download 2.6MBthredds
*AirMOSS: L2 Hourly Precipitation at AirMOSS Sites, 2011-20152016-09-02 2016-09-02 user guide download 280.8KBthredds

Tool (1 dataset)

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*Soil Moisture Visualizer SPR2017-04-13 2017-04-13 user guide

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