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 …

A systematic review of studies at the intersection of urban climate and historical urban landscape

T Dai, X Zheng, J Yang - Environmental impact assessment review, 2022 - Elsevier
Compared to modern cities, historical cities of fragile urban fabric are more vulnerable to
natural hazards and climate change. Many existing academic publications have respectively …

Ecological restoration impact on total terrestrial water storage

M Zhao, J Zhang, I Velicogna, C Liang, Z Li - Nature Sustainability, 2021 - nature.com
Large-scale ecological restoration (ER) has been successful in curbing land degradation
and improving ecosystem services. Previous studies have shown that ER changes …

Divergent hydrological response to large-scale afforestation and vegetation greening in China

Y Li, S Piao, LZX Li, A Chen, X Wang, P Ciais… - Science …, 2018 - science.org
China has experienced substantial changes in vegetation cover, with a 10% increase in the
leaf area index and an~ 41.5 million-hectare increase in forest area since the 1980s. Earlier …

Response of vegetation phenology to soil moisture dynamics in the Mongolian Plateau

M Luo, F Meng, C Sa, Y Duan, Y Bao, T Liu… - Catena, 2021 - Elsevier
Soil moisture (SM) plays a paramount role in maintaining plant growth. However, the
understanding of the influences of SM dynamics on vegetation phenology is still insufficient …

Attribution of global soil moisture drying to human activities: A quantitative viewpoint

X Gu, Q Zhang, J Li, VP Singh, J Liu… - Geophysical …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Anthropogenic impacts on widespread global soil moisture (SM) drying in the root zone
layer during 1948–2005 were evaluated based on the Global Land Data Assimilation …

Spatio-temporal variations in global surface soil moisture based on multiple datasets: intercomparison and climate drivers

Y Guan, X Gu, LJ Slater, J Li, D Kong, X Zhang - Journal of Hydrology, 2023 - Elsevier
Accurate soil moisture datasets are essential to understand the impacts of climate change.
However, few studies have evaluated the consistency and drivers of long-term trends in soil …

A coupled human-natural system analysis of water yield in the Yellow River basin, China

L Yin, X Feng, B Fu, S Wang, X Wang, Y Chen… - Science of the Total …, 2021 - Elsevier
In response to the potential water conflict caused by climate change and increased
population, an integrated water yield analysis from the perspective of the coupled human …

The Microwave Temperature Vegetation Drought Index (MTVDI) based on AMSR-E brightness temperatures for long-term drought assessment across China (2003 …

L Liu, J Liao, X Chen, G Zhou, Y Su, Z Xiang… - Remote Sensing of …, 2017 - Elsevier
Satellite-based drought indices have been proved to be effective and convenient in
detecting drought conditions at regional and global scales. However, most current drought …

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 …