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 …

This paper presents a comprehensive review and analysis of the available literature and
information on droughts to build a continental, regional and country level perspective on …

Passive microwave remote sensing at L-band (1.4 GHz) provides an unprecedented
opportunity to estimate global surface soil moisture (SM) and vegetation water content (via …

In situ measurements of soil moisture are invaluable for calibrating and validating land
surface models and satellite-based soil moisture retrievals. In addition, long-term time series …

A series of satellite-based passive and active microwave instruments provide soil moisture
retrievals spanning altogether more than three decades. This offers the opportunity to …

The West African Sahel is well known for the severe droughts that ravaged the region in the
1970s and 1980s. Meteorological research on the region has flourished during the last …

Recently, large efforts have been made to develop surface soil moisture (SSM) products
based on observations from passive microwave L-band satellites at the global scale …

Ongoing global warming raises the hypothesis of an intensification of the hydrological cycle,
extreme rainfall events becoming more frequent. However, the strong time–space variability …

One motivation for setting up the CATCH (Couplage de l'Atmosphère Tropicale et du Cycle
Hydrologique) project at the end of the 1990s, was to contribute to documenting the …

An anticipated consequence of ongoing global warming is the intensification of the rainfall
regimes meaning longer dry spells and heavier precipitation when it rains, with potentially …