Modelling the passive microwave signature from land surfaces: A review of recent results and application to the L-band SMOS & SMAP soil moisture retrieval …

JP Wigneron, TJ Jackson, P O'neill… - Remote Sensing of …, 2017 - Elsevier
Two passive microwave missions are currently operating at L-band to monitor surface soil
moisture (SM) over continental surfaces. The SMOS sensor, based on an innovative …

Investigating soil moisture–climate interactions in a changing climate: A review

SI Seneviratne, T Corti, EL Davin, M Hirschi… - Earth-Science …, 2010 - Elsevier
Soil moisture is a key variable of the climate system. It constrains plant transpiration and
photosynthesis in several regions of the world, with consequent impacts on the water …

[HTML][HTML] Evaluation of 18 satellite-and model-based soil moisture products using in situ measurements from 826 sensors

HE Beck, M Pan, DG Miralles… - Hydrology and Earth …, 2021 - hess.copernicus.org
Abstract Information about the spatiotemporal variability of soil moisture is critical for many
purposes, including monitoring of hydrologic extremes, irrigation scheduling, and prediction …

The SMOS mission: New tool for monitoring key elements ofthe global water cycle

YH Kerr, P Waldteufel, JP Wigneron… - Proceedings of the …, 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
It is now well understood that data on soil moisture and sea surface salinity (SSS) are
required to improve meteorological and climate predictions. These two quantities are not yet …

L-band Microwave Emission of the Biosphere (L-MEB) Model: Description and calibration against experimental data sets over crop fields

JP Wigneron, Y Kerr, P Waldteufel, K Saleh… - Remote Sensing of …, 2007 - Elsevier
In the near future, the SMOS (Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity) mission will provide global
maps of surface soil moisture (SM). The SMOS baseline payload is an L-band (1.4 GHz) two …

[HTML][HTML] Analysis of near-surface atmospheric variables: Validation of the SAFRAN analysis over France

P Quintana-Segui, P Le Moigne… - Journal of applied …, 2008 - journals.ametsoc.org
Système d'analyse fournissant des renseignements atmosphériques à la neige (SAFRAN) is
a mesoscale atmospheric analysis system for surface variables. It produces an analysis at …

From near-surface to root-zone soil moisture using an exponential filter: an assessment of the method based on in-situ observations and model simulations

C Albergel, C Rüdiger, T Pellarin… - Hydrology and Earth …, 2008 - hess.copernicus.org
A long term data acquisition effort of profile soil moisture is under way in southwestern
France at 13 automated weather stations. This ground network was developed in order to …

Effects of near-surface soil moisture on GPS SNR data: Development of a retrieval algorithm for soil moisture

CC Chew, EE Small, KM Larson… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Global Positioning System (GPS) multipath signals can be used to infer volumetric soil
moisture around a GPS antenna. While most GPS users concentrate on the signal that …

Estimating volumetric surface moisture content for cropped soils using a soil wetness index based on surface temperature and NDVI

K Mallick, BK Bhattacharya, NK Patel - Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 2009 - Elsevier
Surface soil wetness determines moisture availability that controls the response and
feedback mechanisms between land surface and atmospheric processes. A study was …

Multilevel and multiscale drought reanalysis over France with the Safran-Isba-Modcou hydrometeorological suite

JP Vidal, E Martin, L Franchistéguy… - Hydrology and Earth …, 2010 - hess.copernicus.org
Physically-based droughts can be defined as a water deficit in at least one component of the
land surface hydrological cycle. The reliance of different activity domains (water supply …