NASA-USDA-FAS Soil Moisture / IMERG visualization

This visualization shows the correlation and lag time of surface soil moisture following precipitation events over Australia, India, and the United States. It uses the new NASA-USDA-FAS Soil Moisture product, a joint effort of NASA and the USDA Foreign Agricultural Service, and the global Integrated Multi-satellitE Retrievals for GPM (IMERG) precipitation dataset, which provides rainfall rates for the entire world every thirty minutes. This animation shows the 30-minute rainfall product, while the soil moisture data is a three-day moving average. Anomaly data is expressed as a standardized anomaly, e.g. (value-average)/stdev, and as such is unitless.


For more detailed information about the soil moisture product:
http://www.pecad.fas.usda.gov/cropexp...

Trent L. Schindler (USRA): Lead Visualizer
Horace Mitchell (NASA/GSFC): Visualizer
John D. Bolten (NASA/GSFC): Lead Scientist
Iliana E. Mladenova (University of Maryland): Scientist
Dalia B Kirschbaum (NASA/GSFC): Scientist
Matthew R. Radcliff (USRA): Lead Producer