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The Climate Change Initiative (CCI) SM products released by the European Space Agency have been widely used in many humid\/semi-humid climatic regions due to their relatively long-term record. However, the performance of these products in cold and arid regions, such as the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau (QTP), is largely unknown, necessitating urgent evaluation and calibration in these areas. In this work, we evaluated the reliability and improved the accuracy of the active-passive combined CCI products (CCI-C) using in-situ measured SM contents (SMC) under different underlying surface conditions. First, some conventional models were used to investigate the relationship between the CCI-C and the in-situ observed SMC, yielding similar fitting performances. Next, the random forest method and multiple linear regression were used to contrast the conventional models to calibrate and validate the CCI-C SM product based on the in-situ observed SMC, and the random forest method was found to have the highest accuracy. However, calibration of the CCI-C SM data with the best-performed random forest method based on different spatial zonation methods, e.g., by climate, topography, land cover, and vegetation, resulted in distinct spatial patterns of SM. Compared to a widely-used satellite SM product, namely the Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) SM dataset, the calibrated CCI-C SM data based on climatic and vegetation zonation were larger but had similar spatial patterns. This study also points to the value of the calibrated CCI-C SM product to support land surface studies on the QTP.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs15040918","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2023,2,8]],"date-time":"2023-02-08T05:37:31Z","timestamp":1675834651000},"page":"918","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":3,"title":["Calibration of the ESA CCI-Combined Soil Moisture Products on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"15","author":[{"given":"Wenjun","family":"Yu","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Hydrology and Water Resources, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing 210044, China"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-0154-386X","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Yanzhong","family":"Li","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Hydrology and Water Resources, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing 210044, China"}]},{"given":"Guimin","family":"Liu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Environmental and Municipal Engineering, Lanzhou Jiaotong University, Lanzhou 730070, China"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2023,2,7]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"305","DOI":"10.1016\/S0065-2687(08)60176-4","article-title":"Land surface processes and climate\u2014Surface albedos and energy balance","volume":"25","author":"Dickinson","year":"1983","journal-title":"Adv. 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