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The two L-band soil moisture satellite missions SMAP (Soil Moisture Active Passive) and SMOS (Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity) are able to provide soil moisture estimates on global scales and in kilometer accuracy. However, the SMOS data record has an appropriate length of 7.5 years since late 2009, but with a coarse resolution of \u223c25 km only. In contrast, a spatially-enhanced SMAP product is available at a higher resolution of 9 km, but for a shorter time period (since March 2015 only). Being the fundamental observable from passive microwave sensors, reliable brightness temperatures (Tbs) are a mandatory precondition for satellite-based soil moisture products. We therefore develop, evaluate and apply a copula-based data fusion approach for combining SMAP Enhanced (SMAP_E) and SMOS brightness Temperature (Tb) data. The approach exploits both linear and non-linear dependencies between the two satellite-based Tb products and allows one to generate conditional SMAP_E-like random samples during the pre-SMAP period. Our resulting global Copula-combined SMOS-SMAP_E (CoSMOP) Tbs are statistically consistent with SMAP_E brightness temperatures, have a spatial resolution of 9 km and cover the period from 2010 to 2018. A comparison with Service Soil Climate Analysis Network (SCAN)-sites over the Contiguous United States (CONUS) domain shows that the approach successfully reduces the average RMSE of the original SMOS data by 15%. At certain locations, improvements of 40% and more can be observed. Moreover, the median NSE can be enhanced from zero to almost 0.5. Hence, CoSMOP, which will be made freely available to the public, provides a first step towards a global, long-term, high-resolution and multi-sensor brightness temperature product, and thereby, also soil moisture.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs10111842","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2018,11,21]],"date-time":"2018-11-21T11:23:27Z","timestamp":1542799407000},"page":"1842","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":16,"title":["Long-Term and High-Resolution Global Time Series of Brightness Temperature from Copula-Based Fusion of SMAP Enhanced and SMOS Data"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"10","author":[{"given":"Christof","family":"Lorenz","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research (IMK-IFU), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Campus Alpin, Kreuzeckbahnstr. 19, 82467 Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-0812-8570","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Carsten","family":"Montzka","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Forschungszentrum J\u00fclich, Institute of Bio- and Geosciences: Agrosphere (IBG-3), Wilhelm-Johnen-Stra\u00dfe, 52428 J\u00fclich, Germany"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-1760-2425","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Thomas","family":"Jagdhuber","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Microwaves and Radar Institute, German Aerospace Center, M\u00fcnchener Stra\u00dfe 20, 82234 We\u00dfling, Germany"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-8657-6152","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Patrick","family":"Laux","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research (IMK-IFU), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Campus Alpin, Kreuzeckbahnstr. 19, 82467 Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany"}]},{"given":"Harald","family":"Kunstmann","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research (IMK-IFU), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Campus Alpin, Kreuzeckbahnstr. 19, 82467 Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany"},{"name":"Institute of Geography, University of Augsburg, Alter Postweg 118, 86159 Augsburg, Germany"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2018,11,20]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"100","DOI":"10.1038\/ngeo2868","article-title":"The global distribution and dynamics of surface soil moisture","volume":"10","author":"McColl","year":"2017","journal-title":"Nat. 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