From the Department of Environmental Sciences at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, highlights of this site include data sets from soil moisture observation stations in Eurasia (including China, India, Mongolia, and the former Soviet Union) as well as the slightly less exotic locales of Iowa and Illinois. These data sets are available by clicking on a map of Eurasia and the two US...

NOAA's Climate Prediction Center offers this useful data site on soil moisture across the US. Soil moisture data are provided here as color contour maps that represent calculated soil moisture, anomalies, and percentiles for the most recent day, monthly, and twelve-month time periods. Also provided here are 25-year average soil moisture & soil wetness summaries. In addition to providing recent and...