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This study estimates Sentinel-1\u2019s radiometric uncertainty, identifies the effects of weather-related surface conditions on     \u03c3 0     and investigates their impact on soil moisture retrievals for various conditions regarding soil moisture, surface roughness and incidence angle. Masking rules for the surface conditions that disturb     \u03c3 0     were developed based on meteorological measurements and timeseries of Sentinel-1 observations collected over five forests, five meadows and five cultivated fields in the eastern part of the Netherlands. The Sentinel-1     \u03c3 0     observations appear to be affected by frozen conditions below an air temperature of 1      \u2218  C    , snow during Sentinel-1\u2019s morning overpasses on meadows and cultivated fields and interception after more than     1.8        m      m    of rain in the 12 h preceding a Sentinel-1 overpass, whereas dew was not found to be of influence. After the application of these masking rules, the radiometric uncertainty was estimated by the standard deviation of the seasonal anomalies timeseries of the Sentinel-1 forest     \u03c3 0     observations. By spatially averaging the     \u03c3 0     observations, the Sentinel-1 radiometric uncertainty improves from     0.85     dB for a surface area of     0.25        h a     to     0.30     dB for 10     h a     for the VV polarization and from     0.89     dB to     0.36     dB for the VH polarization, following approximately an inverse square root dependency on the surface area over which the     \u03c3 0     observations are averaged. Deviations in     \u03c3 0     were combined with the     \u03c3 0     sensitivity to soil moisture as simulated with the Integral Equation Method (IEM) surface scattering model, which demonstrated that both the disturbing effects by the weather-related surface conditions (if not masked) and radiometric uncertainty have a significant impact on the soil moisture retrievals from Sentinel-1. The soil moisture retrieval uncertainty due to radiometric uncertainty ranges from     0.01        m 3        m  \u2212 3      up to     0.17        m 3        m  \u2212 3      for wet soils and small surface areas. The impacts on soil moisture retrievals are found to be weakly dependent on the surface roughness and the incidence angle, and strongly dependent on the surface area (or the     \u03c3 0     disturbance caused by a weather-related surface condition for a specific land cover type) and the soil moisture itself.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs11172025","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2019,8,28]],"date-time":"2019-08-28T11:23:18Z","timestamp":1566991398000},"page":"2025","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":43,"title":["Impacts of Radiometric Uncertainty and Weather-Related Surface Conditions on Soil Moisture Retrievals with Sentinel-1"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"11","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-3115-9781","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Harm-Jan","family":"Benninga","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Water Resources, Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC), University of Twente, P.O. 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