• Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) is a satellite which forms part of ESA's Living Planet Programme. It is intended to provide new insights into Earth's...
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    Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) is a NASA environmental monitoring satellite that measures soil moisture across the planet. It is designed to collect...
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    surface is within the capillary fringe of saline groundwater. Soil salinity control involves watertable control and flushing with higher levels of applied...
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    average salinity of 38‰, more saline than the global average of 34.7‰. Thus, oceanic waters in polar regions have lower salinity content than oceanic waters...
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    11 November 2013. SMOS – Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity satellite will study ocean salinity and soil moisture; it was launched on 2 November 2009. CryoSat...
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  • moorings to support NASA Aquaris and European Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) surface salinity satellite missions and climate research. The TRITON...
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    water reservoirs such as oceans, ice sheets, the atmosphere and soil moisture. The water cycle is essential to life on Earth and plays a large role in the...
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  • Space Agency Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) mission is the first orbit mission to measure salinity of the Earth’s surface and able to show data...
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    In the Messinian salinity crisis (also referred to as the Messinian event, and in its latest stage as the Lago Mare event) the Mediterranean Sea went...
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    water reservoirs such as oceans, ice sheets, the atmosphere and soil moisture. The water cycle is essential to life on Earth and plays a large role in the...
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    as water with a salinity of less than 1% that of the oceans – i.e. below around 0.35‰. Water with a salinity between this level and 1‰ is typically referred...
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    weather prediction. The proposed Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity satellite would provide the detail of soil moisture information on a daily basis may provide...
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    Programme of Earth observation satellites, having constructed the Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity satellite. Wikinews has related news: French agency CNES to...
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    There are several methods of evaluating soil moisture. The most basic is simple observation and feeling of the soil, however this has its limitations since...
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  • Satellite surface salinity refers to measurements of surface salinity made by remote sensing satellites. The radiative properties of the ocean surface are exploited...
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  • salinity induced by irrigation with seawater.Pages displaying wikidata descriptions as a fallback Salinity control – Controlling the problem of soil salinityPages...
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  • Observatory, Planck, Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity, BepiColombo, Galileo, Solar Orbiter, Automated Transfer Vehicle, Aeolus, and ICESat2. Beyond Gravity...
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    Groundwater (category Soil mechanics)
    sense, it can also contain soil moisture, permafrost (frozen soil), immobile water in very low permeability bedrock, and deep geothermal or oil formation...
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  • implementation currently (as of 2020) contribute to Copernicus: SMOS (Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity), launched on 2 November 2009. CryoSat-2 (the measurement of...
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  • dehydration. Soil microbial communities experience shifts in the diversity and composition during dehydration and rehydration cycles. Soil moisture affects...
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  • instrument on the Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity satellite (SMOS). MIRAS employs a planar antenna composed of a central body (the so-called hub) and three telescoping...
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    production is moisture moving along three-dimensional zones of temperature and moisture contrasts known as weather fronts. If enough moisture and upward motion...
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    Once the soil is saturated, runoff occurs. Therefore, surface runoff is a significantly factor in the controlling of soil moisture after medium and low intensity...
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    through the transport of eroded rock and soil. Ocean salinity is derived mainly from the weathering of rocks and the transport of dissolved salts from...
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    BIOMASS CryoSat and CryoSat-2 EarthCARE FLEX Gravity Field and Steady-State Ocean Circulation Explorer (GOCE) Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) Swarm...
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  • SMOS may refer to: Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity satellite, launched by the European Space Agency in fall 2009 Special Minister of State, a minister...
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    shrubs and associated grasses typically produce abundant small seeds that are harvested by rodents and insects. The soil salinity and lack of moisture in...
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    are done by means of a Bresle test. Salinization (increasing salinity, aka freshwater salinization syndrome) and subsequent increased metal leaching is...
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    analysis and modeling. Soil salinity is the result of insufficient rainwater precipitation which leads to accumulation of soluble salt in soil horizon...
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    satellite SMOS (Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity) that was launched in November 2009. Previous satellites enabled measurement of ocean currents, sea surface...
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