“…This implies that the signal‐to‐noise ratio may not improve with adding more data, as commonly expected. A number of recent studies have attributed the phase nonclosure to physical processes, such as variations in soil moisture (e.g., Conde et al, ; Zan et al, ; Zwieback et al, , ). However, our results indicate that phase inconsistencies emerge due to data processing, specifically filtering and/or multilooking of the radar phase, and do not affect the raw radar phase.…”