Assimilation of soil moisture using Ensemble Kalman Filter

  • Juan Du
  • , Chaoshun Liu*
  • , Wei Gao
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

In this work, a soil moisture data assimilation scheme was developed based on the Community Land Model Version 3.0 (hereafter CLM) and Ensemble Kalman Filter. Soil moisture in the 1st soil layer was assimilated into CLM to evaluate the improvements of land surface process simulation. The results indicated that the assimilation system could improve the model accuracy effectively. It can transfer the variations of shallow soil layer's moisture to the deep soil and make great improvements to the soil water and heat status in an overall level. The system could improve the soil moisture accuracy from the 1st soil layer to the 6th soil layer by 50%. According to this experiment, the transfer depth of soil moisture was from 40 cm to 60 cm. After assimilation, the correlation coefficient of latent heat flux observation and simulation increased from 0.68 to 0.91 and the RMSE dropped from 86.7 W/m2 to 45.7 W/m2. For the sensible heat flux, the correlation coefficient increased from 0.69 to 0.80 and the RMSE reduced from 105.1 W/m2 to 71.3 W/m2. It was feasible and significant to assimilate soil moisture remote sensing products.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationRemote Sensing and Modeling of Ecosystems for Sustainability XI
EditorsJinnian Wang, Ni-Bin Chang, Wei Gao
PublisherSPIE
ISBN (Electronic)9781628412482
DOIs
StatePublished - 2014
EventRemote Sensing and Modeling of Ecosystems for Sustainability XI - San Diego, United States
Duration: 18 Aug 201420 Aug 2014

Publication series

NameProceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
Volume9221
ISSN (Print)0277-786X
ISSN (Electronic)1996-756X

Conference

ConferenceRemote Sensing and Modeling of Ecosystems for Sustainability XI
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CitySan Diego
Period18/08/1420/08/14

Keywords

  • Community land model
  • Data assimilation
  • Ensemble kalman filter
  • Soil heat flux
  • Soil moisture

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