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STAR Soil Moisture Operational Product System (SMOPS) Portal - Download Data

Reprocessed SMOPS data

Paper on reprocessing:

Yin, J. F., Zhan, X. W., Liu, J. C., Barlage, M., Meng, H., Kalluri, S., Yang, J. X., Ogden, F. L., Goldberg, M. D., Zhao, L. M., Cosh, M., & Ferraro, R. R. (2025). Reprocessed NOAA SMOPS Blended Soil Moisture Product as a Climate Data Record. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 106(8), E1601-E1619. [10.1175/bams-d-23-0248.1]

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If you are interested in obtaining digital data files of NOAA soil moisture maps, please email xiwu.zhan@noaa.gov or jicheng.liu@noaa.gov.