Satellite-based assessment of land surface energy partitioning-soil moisture relationships and effects of confounding variables

Andrew Feldman1, Dan Gianotti2, Isabel Franco Trigo3, Guido Salvucci4 and Dara Entekhabi1, (1)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Cambridge, MA, United States, (2)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Cambridge, MA, United States, (3)Instituto Português do Mar e da Atmosfera, Lisbon, Portugal, (4)Boston University, Earth and Environment, Boston, MA, United States