The International Soil Moisture Network: serving Earth system science for over a decade

W Dorigo, I Himmelbauer, D Aberer… - Hydrology and Earth …, 2021 - hess.copernicus.org
In 2009, the International Soil Moisture Network (ISMN) was initiated as a community effort,
funded by the European Space Agency, to serve as a centralised data hosting facility for …

Soil and environmental issues in sandy soils

J Huang, AE Hartemink - Earth-Science Reviews, 2020 - Elsevier
Sandy soils are widely distributed across the world. Due to the growing global population
and urbanization, these soils are increasingly used to provide food, feed, fiber, energy, and …

Regional climate downscaling over Europe: perspectives from the EURO-CORDEX community

D Jacob, C Teichmann, S Sobolowski… - Regional environmental …, 2020 - Springer
Abstract The European CORDEX (EURO-CORDEX) initiative is a large voluntary effort that
seeks to advance regional climate and Earth system science in Europe. As part of the World …

The essential value of long‐term experimental data for hydrology and water management

D Tetzlaff, SK Carey, JP McNamara… - Water Resources …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Observations and data from long‐term experimental watersheds are the foundation of
hydrology as a geoscience. They allow us to benchmark process understanding, observe …

Internet of Things to network smart devices for ecosystem monitoring

X Li, N Zhao, R Jin, S Liu, X Sun, X Wen, D Wu, Y Zhou… - Science Bulletin, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract Smart, real-time, low-cost, and distributed ecosystem monitoring is essential for
understanding and managing rapidly changing ecosystems. However, new techniques in …

Understanding forest health with remote sensing, part III: requirements for a scalable multi-source forest health monitoring network based on data science approaches

A Lausch, E Borg, J Bumberger, P Dietrich, M Heurich… - Remote sensing, 2018 - mdpi.com
Forest ecosystems fulfill a whole host of ecosystem functions that are essential for life on our
planet. However, an unprecedented level of anthropogenic influences is reducing the …

High-resolution drought simulations and comparison to soil moisture observations in Germany

F Boeing, O Rakovec, R Kumar… - Hydrology and Earth …, 2022 - hess.copernicus.org
Germany's 2018–2020 consecutive drought events resulted in multiple sectors–including
agriculture, forestry, water management, energy production, and transport–being impacted …

Upscaling net ecosystem exchange over heterogeneous landscapes with machine learning

O Reitz, A Graf, M Schmidt, G Ketzler… - Journal of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
This paper discusses different feature selection methods and CO2 flux data sets with a
varying quality‐quantity balance for the application of a Random Forest model to predict …

High-resolution hydrometeorological data from a network of headwater catchments in the tropical Andes

BF Ochoa-Tocachi, W Buytaert, J Antiporta, L Acosta… - Scientific data, 2018 - nature.com
This article presents a hydrometeorological dataset from a network of paired instrumented
catchments, obtained by participatory monitoring through a partnership of academic and non …

The soil moisture data bank: The ground-based, model-based, and satellite-based soil moisture data

A Tavakol, KR McDonough, V Rahmani… - Remote Sensing …, 2021 - Elsevier
Soil moisture is a critical component of the climate system due to the link it provides between
atmospheric and terrestrial energy, water, and carbon cycles. A better understanding of …