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However, all individual satellite SM data ingested into the current operational SMOPS are scaled to global land data assimilation system (GLDAS) 0\u201310 cm SM climatology before the combination. As a result, the useful information from the original microwave SM retrievals could be lost, and the GLDAS model errors could be brought into the final SMOPS blended product. In this paper, we propose to scale the individual SM retrievals to the soil moisture active passive (SMAP) data through building regression models. The rescaled individual SM data and the SMAP observations then have similar climatology and dynamics, which allows producing the SMOPScdr (distinguishing with the current operational SMOPSopr) data using an equal-weight averaging approach. With respect to the in situ SM measurements, the developed SMOPScdr is more successful tracking the surface SM status than the individual satellite SM products with significantly decreased errors. The proposed method also preserves the climatology of the reference SMAP data for the period when SMAP is not available, allowing us to produce a long-term SMOPScdr data product.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs14071700","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,3,31]],"date-time":"2022-03-31T21:34:29Z","timestamp":1648762469000},"page":"1700","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":3,"title":["A New Method for Generating the SMOPS Blended Satellite Soil Moisture Data Product without Relying on a Model Climatology"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"14","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-7782-6519","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Jifu","family":"Yin","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, Cooperative Institute for Climate and Satellites, University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD 20740, USA"},{"name":"NOAA NESDIS Center for Satellite Applications and Research, College Park, MD 20740, USA"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-6178-7976","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Xiwu","family":"Zhan","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"NOAA NESDIS Center for Satellite Applications and Research, College Park, MD 20740, USA"}]},{"given":"Jicheng","family":"Liu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, Cooperative Institute for Climate and Satellites, University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD 20740, USA"},{"name":"NOAA NESDIS Center for Satellite Applications and Research, College Park, MD 20740, USA"}]},{"given":"Ralph R.","family":"Ferraro","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, Cooperative Institute for Climate and Satellites, University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD 20740, USA"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,3,31]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"704","DOI":"10.1109\/JPROC.2010.2043918","article-title":"The Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) mission","volume":"98","author":"Entekhabi","year":"2010","journal-title":"Proc. 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