Description:

There is widespread recognition of the value of applying soil moisture data to address important policy and research topics, from drought and flood monitoring, to fire risk assessment, to improving subseasonal to seasonal forecasting and climatological modeling. And there are multiple sources of soil moisture data, whether from satellites, land surface model outputs, or in situ networks. Yet there remain clear gaps in research between what is available and what would best serve the needs of the atmospheric science community. Please join the National Coordinated Soil Moisture Monitoring Network* Executive Committee for this roundtable discussion on where current data falls short and what are emerging ideas to address those gaps. The Town Hall will begin with a brief survey of the available major soil moisture datasets, and then open up for a guided discussion on needs and opportunities.*[Can you include a link to our initiative under our name?: https://www.drought.gov/drought-in-action/national-coordinated-soil-moisture-monitoring-network]