Droughts in a warming climate have become more common and more extreme, making
understanding forest responses to water stress increasingly pressing. Analysis of water …

Observations from spaceborne radar contain considerable information about vegetation
dynamics. The ability to extract this information could lead to improved soil moisture …

Core Ideas Satellites, particularly at L‐band frequency, can globally map near‐surface soil
moisture. Near‐surface moisture is extended to the root zone using models and data …

Vegetation optical depth (VOD) is seasonally sensitive to plant water content and
aboveground biomass. This index has a strong penetrability within the vegetation canopy …

This study explores the use of the Soil Moisture Agricultural Drought Index (SMADI) as a
global estimator of agricultural drought. Previous research presented SMADI as a novel …

Agricultural droughts are extreme events which are often a result of interplays between
multiple hydro-meteorological processes. Therefore, assessing drought occurrence, extent …

Globally, drought constitutes a serious threat to food and water security. The complexity and
multivariate nature of drought challenges its assessment, especially at local scales. The …

Global information on the spatio-temporal variation of parameters driving the Earth's
terrestrial water and energy cycles, such as evapotranspiration (ET) rates and surface soil …

Drought stress is a major contributing factor to plant mortality across the globe. Drought
effects are often studied at the local scale, but recent advances in remote sensing allow for …

The frequency and intensity of global drought events are continuously increasing, posing an
elevated risk of forest mortality worldwide. Accurately understanding the impact of drought …