This dataset contains monthly 0.05°×0.05° land surface soil moisture products in Qilian Mountain Area in 2005, 2010 and 2015. The dataset was produced by utilizing the multivariate statistical regression model to downscale the “AMSR-E and AMSR2 TB-based SMAP Time-Expanded Daily 0.25°×0.25° Land Surface Soil Moisture Dataset in Qilian Mountain Area (SMsmapTE, V1)”. The auxiliary datasets participating in the multivariate statistical regression include GLASS Albedo/LAI/FVC, 1km all-weather surface temperature data in western China by Ji Zhou and Lat/Lon information.

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File Naming Convention: YYYYMM.tiff (YYYY: year, MM: month); Data Version：V1; Projection: +proj=longlat +datum=WGS84 +no_defs; Data Format: GeoTIFF, 220 rows ×360 columes; Soil Moisture Unit: cm3/cm3; Soil Moisture Valid Range: 0.02-0.5; Filled Value：Nodata

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Chai, L., Zhu, Z., Liu, S. (2019). Monthly 0.05°×0.05° land surface soil moisture dataset in Qilian Mountain Area (SMHiRes, V1). National Tibetan Plateau Data Center, DOI: 10.11888/Geogra.tpdc.270230. CSTR: 18406.11.Geogra.tpdc.270230. (Download the reference： RIS | Bibtex )

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1. Qu, Y.Q., Zhu, Z.L., Chai, L.N., Liu, S.M., Montzka, C., Liu, J., Yang, X.F., Lu, Z., Jin, R., Li, X., Guo, Z.X., &Zheng, J. (2019). Rebuilding a Microwave Soil Moisture Product Using Random Forest Adopting AMSR-E/AMSR2 Brightness Temperature and SMAP over the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau, China. Remote Sensing, 11(6), 683.( View Details | Bibtex)

2. Liu, J., Chai, L.N., Lu, Z., Liu, S.M., Qu, Y.Q., Geng, D.Y., Song, Y.Z., Guan, Y.B., Guo, Z.X., Wang, J., &Zhu, Z.L. (2019). Evaluation of SMAP, SMOS-IC, FY3B, JAXA, and LPRM Soil Moisture Products over the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and Its Surrounding Areas. Remote Sensing, 11(7), 792.( View Details | Bibtex)

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Pan-Third Pole Environment Study for a Green Silk Road-A CAS Strategic Priority A Program (No:XDA20000000)

the Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (No:XDA20100101) [XDA20100101]

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