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 …

SMOS-IC data record of soil moisture and L-VOD: Historical development, applications and perspectives

JP Wigneron, X Li, F Frappart, L Fan, A Al-Yaari… - Remote Sensing of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Passive microwave remote sensing observations at L-band provide key and global
information on surface soil moisture and vegetation water content, which are related to the …

Widespread increasing vegetation sensitivity to soil moisture

W Li, M Migliavacca, M Forkel, JMC Denissen… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Global vegetation and associated ecosystem services critically depend on soil moisture
availability which has decreased in many regions during the last three decades. While …

Climate drivers of the 2017 devastating fires in Portugal

M Turco, S Jerez, S Augusto, P Tarín-Carrasco… - Scientific reports, 2019 - nature.com
A record 500,000 hectares burned in Portugal during the extreme wildfire season of 2017,
with more than 120 human lives lost. Here we analyse the climatic factors responsible for the …

Evaluation of the ESA CCI soil moisture product using ground-based observations

WA Dorigo, A Gruber, RAM De Jeu, W Wagner… - Remote Sensing of …, 2015 - Elsevier
In this study we evaluate the skill of a new, merged soil moisture product (ECV_SM) that has
been developed in the framework of the European Space Agency's Water Cycle Multi …

ERA-Interim/Land: a global land surface reanalysis data set

G Balsamo, C Albergel, A Beljaars… - Hydrology and Earth …, 2015 - hess.copernicus.org
ERA-Interim/Land is a global land surface reanalysis data set covering the period 1979–
2010. It describes the evolution of soil moisture, soil temperature and snowpack. ERA …

SMOS-IC: An alternative SMOS soil moisture and vegetation optical depth product

R Fernandez-Moran, A Al-Yaari, A Mialon… - Remote Sensing, 2017 - mdpi.com
The main goal of the Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) mission over land surfaces is
the production of global maps of soil moisture (SM) and vegetation optical depth (τ) based …

Assessing multi-satellite remote sensing, reanalysis, and land surface models' products in characterizing agricultural drought in East Africa

NO Agutu, JL Awange, A Zerihun… - Remote sensing of …, 2017 - Elsevier
Abstract Heavy reliance of East Africa (EA) on rain-fed agriculture makes it vulnerable to
drought-induced famine. Yet, most research on EA drought focuses on meteorological …

Vegetation greening intensified soil drying in some semi-arid and arid areas of the world

Y Deng, S Wang, X Bai, G Luo, L Wu, F Chen… - Agricultural and Forest …, 2020 - Elsevier
Vegetation greening and soil drying, which are simultaneously observed, have brought
controversy about whether vegetation greening leads to soil drying or wetting. Relevant …

Evaluating global trends (1988–2010) in harmonized multi‐satellite surface soil moisture

W Dorigo, R De Jeu, D Chung… - Geophysical …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Global trends in a new multi‐satellite surface soil moisture dataset were analyzed for the
period 1988–2010. 27% of the area covered by the dataset showed significant trends (p …