Support to Science Element Water Cycle Multimission Observation Strategy

01.01.2009 - 19.04.2012

Research funding project

The primary objectives of the WACMOS project are to identify, develop, and validate improved multi-mission based methods to obtain a robust data set of prototype products at global/regional (over in particular land, but not excluding ocean and other water bodies) and basin scales, including evapotranspiration, soil moisture, clouds and water vapour. The project will also facilitate the integration of the above products into both models and data assimilation processes at different scales, including product cross-comparison and error characterization (e.g., run-off, water balance, flood risk, drought, climate) and will consolidate the user base (scientific and institutional) and establish a potential scientific roadmap to advance the establishment of long-term robust multi-source data records of the required variables.

People

Project leader

Wolfgang Wagner (E120)

Project personnel

Wouter Arnoud Dorigo (E120)

Institute

E120 - Department of Geodesy and Geoinformation

Grant funds

ESA / ESTEC (EU) European Space Agency (ESA)

Research focus

Environmental Monitoring and Climate Adaptation: 100%

Keywords

German	English
Mikrowellenfernerkundung	Microwave Remote Sensing
Bodenfeuchte	soil moisture

External partner

Deutscher Wetterdienst
International Institute for Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Het Koninklijk Nederlands Meteorologisch Instituut

Publications

Publications