Data Citation and Acknowledgment
As a condition of using these data, you must cite the use of this data set. Such a practice gives credit to data set producers and advances principles of transparency and reproducibility.
Other standard citation formats may be found on the DOI Citation Formatter website (paste 10.5067/LPJ8F0TAK6E0 into the top form field).
Describing subset: When applicable, include the information a reader would need to extract the same subset at the end of your citation. If multiple or complex steps were incolved, it may be more appropriate to include this information in the paper itself.
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Literature references: Please include the following literature citations in addition to the data citation above:
Chan, S., Bindlish, R., O'Neill, P. E., Njoku, E. G., Jackson, T., Colliander, A., Chen, F., Burgin, M., Dunbar, S., Piepmeier, J. R., Yueh, S., Entekhabi, D., Cosh, M., Caldwell, T., Walker, J., Berg, A., Rowlandson, T., Pacheco, A., McNairn, H., Thibeault, M., Martinez-Fernandez, J., González-Zamora, A., Bosch, D., Starks, P., Goodrich, D., Prueger, J., Palecki, M., Small, E. E., Zreda, M., Calvet, J., Crow, W. T. & Kerr, Y.. 2016. Assessment of the SMAP passive soil moisture product. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 54. DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2016.2561938.