The document proposes a method for soil moisture retrieval over bare surfaces using time-series radar observations and a lookup table representation. It finds that: 1. Retrieving soil moisture and roughness using a time-series method that estimates time-invariant roughness first, then soil moisture, performs better than other empirical methods, with an error of 0.044 cm3/cm3 using 6-11 time observations. 2. The retrieval is mostly independent of knowledge of the correlation length, reducing one degree of freedom. 3. Validation with in situ data shows the time-series lookup table method performs comparably or better than other methods, with the best correlation to in situ soil moisture values and lowest root mean square error