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Three universally employed dielectric semiempirical models (SEMs), the Dobson model, the Wang\u2013Schmugge model and the Mironov model, as well as a new improved SEM known as the soil semi-empirical mineralogy-related-to-water dielectric model (SSMDM), incorporate a significant soil texture effect in different ways. In this paper, soil moisture estimate uncertainties from the effect of soil texture on these four SEMs are systematically and widely investigated over all soil texture cases at different frequencies between 1.4 and 18 GHz for volumetric water content levels between 0.0 and 0.4 m3\/m3 from the perspective of two aspects: soil dielectric model discordance and soil texture discordance. Firstly, the effect of soil texture on these four dielectric SEMs is analyzed. Then, soil moisture estimate uncertainties due to the effect of soil texture are carefully investigated. Finally, the applicability of these SEMs is discussed, which can supply references for their choice. The results show that soil moisture estimate uncertainties are small and satisfy the 4% volumetric water content retrieval requirement in some cases. However, in other cases, it may contribute relatively significant uncertainties to soil moisture estimates and correspond to a difference that exceeds the 4% volumetric water content requirement, with potential for the largest deviations to exceed 0.22 m3\/m3.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs12142343","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2020,7,22]],"date-time":"2020-07-22T03:23:16Z","timestamp":1595388196000},"page":"2343","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":9,"title":["Soil Moisture Estimate Uncertainties from the Effect of Soil Texture on Dielectric Semiempirical Models"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"12","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-6282-2988","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Jing","family":"Liu","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"State Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing Science, Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-3713-9511","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Qinhuo","family":"Liu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"State Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing Science, Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2020,7,21]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"520","DOI":"10.1109\/TGRS.1984.6499163","article-title":"Measured microwave emission and scattering in vegetation canopies","volume":"22","author":"Brunfeldt","year":"1984","journal-title":"IEEE Trans. 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