Assimilation of soil moisture data with the ensemble Kalman filter for the intermediate scale soil moisture predictions in the Netherlands

This thesis discusses the applicability of assimilation of artificial SMAP data into a quasi steady state hydrological model to improve soil moisture estimates. The model used for this research was SIMGRO and since no real SMAP data were available at the time of the research, artificial SMAP data were used. The ensemble Kalman filter was used to...