Improving Soil Moisture and Surface Turbulent Heat Flux Estimates by Assimilation of SMAP Brightness Temperatures or Soil Moisture Retrievals and GOES Land Surface Temperature Retrievals

Surface heat fluxes are vital to hydrological and environmental studies, but mapping them accurately over a large area remains a problem. In this study, brightness temperature (TB) observations or soil moisture retrievals from the NASA Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) mission and land surface temperature (LST) product from the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES) are assimilated together into a coupled water and heat...