MAQU
| Country | China |
| Stations | 27 |
| Organisation | University of Twente, Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC) |
| Contact | Prof. Bob (Z.) Su |
| Website |
https://www.itc.nl/about-itc/organization/scientific-departments/water-resources/earth-observation-sites/tibetan-plateau-peoples-republic-of-china/ |
| Official References | Su, Z., Wen, J., Dente, L., van der Velde, R., Wang, L., Ma, Y., Yang, K., and Hu, Z. 2011, The Tibetan Plateau observatory of plateau scale soil moisture and soil temperature (Tibet-Obs) for quantifying uncertainties in coarse resolution satellite and model products, Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 15, 2303–2316, 2011 Dente, L., Su, Z. & Wen, J. (2012), ‘Validation of smos soil moisture products over the maqu and twente regions’, Sensors 12(8), 9965–9986. |
| Variables measured |
soil temperature soil moisture |
| Depths of soil moisture measurements |
0.05 - 0.05 m 0.10 - 0.10 m 0.20 - 0.20 m 0.40 - 0.40 m 0.80 - 0.80 m |
| Soil Moisture sensors used |
ECH20 EC-TM |
| Data availability | from 2008-05-13 to 2019-06-01 |
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