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Sovremennye problemy distantsionnogo zondirovaniya Zemli iz kosmosa
CURRENT PROBLEMS IN REMOTE SENSING OF THE EARTH FROM SPACE

  

Sovremennye problemy distantsionnogo zondirovaniya Zemli iz kosmosa, 2015, Vol. 12, No. 4, pp. 119-130

Dynamics of soil moisture in the spring and summer of 2010 in the European part of Russia based on the analysis of remote sensing data

E.A. Cherenkova 1 , V.V. Popova 1 
1 Institute of geography RAS, Moscow, Russia
The dynamics of the soil moisture anomalies outside the growing season of 2000–2010 and in the spring and summer 2010 were investigated using satellite data. It was found that a lack of the soil moisture in early summer was caused by a combination of anomalies of meteorological parameters in autumn-spring of 2009–2010 in the center of European territory of Russia. Dry conditions were caused by several factors, including warm and dry autumn, cold winter (which did not support the recharge of soil moisture due to snow melting), rainfall deficit and abnormally warm weather in April and May. Soil moisture anomaly in the summer of 2010 in the European part of Russia contributed to the development of atmospheric drought. It was revealed that the sizeable area of significant soil moisture anomaly and severe atmospheric drought in the summer of 2010 was observed in the Volga Region and in the Central Federal District of Russia. The spatial structure and temporal dynamics of soil moisture and its anomalies obtained using satellite data demonstrate the consistency with the results revealed from the analysis of the agrometeorological stations data.
Keywords: anomalies of soil moisture, soil drought, Standardized Precipitation and Evapotranspiration Index, remote sensing, European territory of Russia
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