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 …

Perceptual perplexity and parameter parsimony

KJ Beven, NA Chappell - Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
This article reconsiders the concept of a perceptual model of hydrological processes as the
first stage to be considered in developing a procedural model for a particular catchment …

Elevation dependence of landslide activity induced by climate change in the eastern Pamirs

Y Pei, H Qiu, Y Zhu, J Wang, D Yang, B Tang, F Wang… - Landslides, 2023 - Springer
The elevation dependence of climate change is unequivocal. Landslides (slides and debris
flows) are the key mark of climate change acting on the land cryosphere, and they can pose …

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 …

Assessment of ERA5-land volumetric soil water layer product using in situ and SMAP soil moisture observations

P Lal, G Singh, NN Das, A Colliander… - IEEE Geoscience and …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In preparation for the NISAR mission soil moisture algorithm, this study performs the
validation of the European Center for Medium-Range Weather Forecast (ECMWF) ERA5 …

Comprehensive evaluation of satellite-based and reanalysis soil moisture products using in situ observations over China

X Ling, Y Huang, W Guo, Y Wang… - Hydrology and Earth …, 2021 - hess.copernicus.org
Soil moisture (SM) plays a critical role in the water and energy cycles of the Earth system;
consequently, a long-term SM product with high quality is urgently needed. In this study, five …

Spatiotemporal dynamics of soil moisture in the karst areas of China based on reanalysis and observations data

Y Deng, S Wang, X Bai, G Luo, L Wu, F Chen… - Journal of …, 2020 - Elsevier
Soil moisture is one of the restricting factors in a fragile karst ecological environment.
However, its spatiotemporal evolution characteristics in the karst areas of China remain …

Drying–wetting changes of surface soil moisture and the influencing factors in permafrost regions of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, China

H Li, F Liu, S Zhang, C Zhang, C Zhang, W Ma, J Luo - Remote Sensing, 2022 - mdpi.com
Soil moisture (SM), an important variable in water conversion between the atmosphere and
terrestrial ecosystems, plays a crucial role in ecological processes and the evolution of …

[HTML][HTML] Continued decline of global soil moisture content, with obvious soil stratification and regional difference

T Qin, J Feng, X Zhang, C Li, J Fan, C Zhang… - Science of The Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
Soil is an important component connecting atmosphere and vegetation, and is an important
'regulator'of slope hydrological process. Global warming accelerates the global water cycle …

Soil Moisture Estimation by Assimilating In‐Situ and SMAP Surface Soil Moisture Using Unscented Weighted Ensemble Kalman Filter

X Fu, Y Zhang, Q Zhong, H Lü, Y Ding… - Water Resources …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Highly accurate soil moisture information is necessary to understand land surface
processes. However, observational techniques do not produce adequately accurate spatial …