Table 5.

Spatial pattern correlations of subseasonal JJA standard deviations of daily soil moisture between stations and model grid boxes for indicated models.

LSM	Local				Regional
Noah	GLDAS	CFSR	CFS	20CR	GLDAS	CFSR	CFS	20CR
Surface	−0.13	0.06	−0.01	0.06	0.38	0.40	0.30	0.25
Shallow	0.08	0.09	−0.06	0.06	0.39	0.34	0.33	0.30
Deep	0.09	0.00	−0.09	0.00	0.25	0.21	0.22	0.18
Catchment	MERRA land	MERRA	GEOS5		MERRA land	MERRA	GEOS5
Surface	−0.13	−0.11	−0.09		0.08	−0.04	0.21
Shallow	0.07		0.10		0.29		0.21
HTESSEL	ERA-In. land	ERA Interim	IFS		ERA-In. land	ERA Interim	IFS
Surface	0.07	0.03	0.12		0.40	0.50	0.47
Shallow	0.09	0.03			0.34	0.43
Deep	−0.02	0.01			0.28	0.32
CLM	CLM		CCSM		CLM		CCSM
Surface	0.14		0.07		0.41		0.39
Shallow	0.11		0.05		0.33		0.34
Deep	0.07		−0.03		0.27		0.25
Multi-model	Offline	Reanal.	Free		Offline	Reanal.	Free
Surface	−0.01	0.01	0.09		0.31	0.28	0.35
Shallow	0.09	0.06	0.12		0.34	0.36	0.29
Deep	0.03	0.00	0.04		0.27	0.24	0.22

Estimates are grouped by extent of network (local versus regional) and averaged across networks weighted by number of stations used in each network. Surface refers to the top LSM soil level, except CLM where it is the total for the top 3 layers; shallow is the second layer except for CLM where it is layers 4–6; deep is the third layer for Noah and HTESSEL, layers 7–8 for CLM.