A selection of information resources prepared by the COSMOS-UK project are listed below.
Data
Monthly summary of UK soil moisture status
- The latest monthly summary can be viewed here.
- You can subscribe and be notified when future monthly summaries are available.
- Archive of previous monthly summaries.
Peer Reviewed Publications
2021. Beale, J., Waine, T., Evans J., and Corstanje, R., "A Method to Assess the Performance of SAR-Derived Surface Soil Moisture Products". IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, 14, 4504 - 4516, doi: 10.1109/JSTARS.2021.3071380.
2021. Wallbank, J.R., Cole, S.J., Moore, R.J. , Anderson, S.R. , Mellor, E.J., "Estimating snow water equivalent using cosmic-ray neutron sensors from the COSMOS-UK network". Hydrological Processes, 35, e14048, DOI: 10.1002/hyp.14048
2021. Cooper, E., Blyth, E., Cooper, H., Ellis, R., Pinnington, E., and Dadson, S. J., "Using data assimilation to optimize pedotransfer functions using field-scale in situ soil moisture observations". Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 25, 2445–2458, doi: 10.5194/hess-25-2445-2021
2021. Cooper, H. M., Bennett, E., Blake, J., Blyth, E., Boorman, D., Cooper, E., Evans, J., Fry, M., Jenkins, A., Morrison, R., Rylett, D., Stanley, S., Szczykulska, M., Trill, E., Antoniou, V., Askquith-Ellis, A., Ball, L., Brooks, M., Clarke, M. A., Cowan, N., Cumming, A., Farrand, P., Hitt, O., Lord, W., Scarlett, P., Swain, O., Thornton, J., Warwick, A., and Winterbourn, B., "COSMOS-UK: national soil moisture and hydrometeorology data for environmental science research". Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 13, 1737–1757, doi: 10.5194/essd-13-1737-2021
2021. Dirmeyer, P. A., Balsamo, G., Blyth, E. M., Morrison, R., and Cooper, H. M., "Land‐atmosphere interactions exacerbated the drought and heatwave over northern Europe during summer 2018". AGU Advances, 2, e2020AV000283, doi: 10.1029/2020AV000283
2021. Pinnington, E., Amezcua, J., Cooper, E., Dadson, S., Ellis, R., Peng, J., Robinson, E., Morrison, R., Osborne, S., and Quaife, T., "Improving soil moisture prediction of a high-resolution land surface model by parameterising pedotransfer functions through assimilation of SMAP satellite data". Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 25, 1617–1641, doi: 10.5194/hess-25-1617-2021
2016. Evans, J. G., Ward, H. C., Blake, J. R., Hewitt, E. J., Morrison, R., Fry, M., Ball, L. A., Doughty, L. C., Libre, J. W., Hitt, O. E., Rylett, D., Ellis, R. J., Warwick, A. C., Brooks, M., Parkes, M. A., Wright, G. M. H., Singer, A. C., Boorman, D. B., and Jenkins, A., "Soil water content in southern England derived from a cosmic-ray soil moisture observing system – COSMOS-UK". Hydrol. Process., doi: 10.1002/hyp.10929.
2014. Fry, Matthew J.; Evans, Jonathan; Ward, Helen; Blake, James; Ball, Lucy; and Doughty, Louisa, "The Provision Of Data From The COSMOS-UK Soil Moisture Monitoring Network". International Conference on Hydroinformatics. Paper 56. http://academicworks.cuny.edu/cc_conf_hic/56
Print Media
- COSMOS-UK Project Overview Leaflet.
- COSMOS-UK The UK’s Cosmic Ray Soil Moisture Observing System (A4 leaflet).
- Latest version of COSMOS-UK User Guide.
- Red, green and blue (RGB) data infographic.
Videos and Animations
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