Improving soil moisture prediction using a novel encoder-decoder model with residual learning

•Skillful prediction of soil moisture (SM) is useful but great challenges exist.•A novel encoder-decoder LSTM model with residual learning (EDR-LSTM) is developed.•EDR-LSTM improved about 20% in SM prediction at the lead time of 3, 5 and 10 days.•Both encoder-decoder and residual learning are useful...

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