Annual Surface Soil Moisture Trends

Figure 3.2

This figure appears in chapter 3 of the Climate Change Impacts in the United States: The Third National Climate Assessment report.

http://nca2014.globalchange.gov/report/sectors/water/graphics/annual-surface-soil-moisture-trends

Changes in annual surface soil moisture per year over the period 1988 to 2010 based on multi-satellite datasets. Surface soil moisture exhibits wetting trends in the Northeast, Florida, upper Midwest, and Northwest, and drying trends almost everywhere else. (Images provided by W. Dorigodcbcf1b2-fd1f-4565-a914-a045d60fe10f).

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This figure was created on November 15, 2013.

This figure was derived from Evaluating global trends (1988-2010) in harmonized multi-satellite surface soil moisture .

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• Evaluating global trends (1988-2010) in harmonized multi-satellite surface soil moisture (dcbcf1b2)

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