Estimating soil moisture from space - A comparison between soil moisture estimates based on satellite retrievals and the E-HYPE model under drought scenarios in France year 2003 and 2011
Economic impacts of drought events can amass to billions of Euros within the EU. Ways to estimate the amount of water in the soil is thus very valuable to gather information which could be used for decision making. This thesis looks at different ways to estimate the amount of water in the soil, the so called soil moisture. The E-HYPE model from the Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute
