Drivers and impacts of changes in China's drylands

C Li, B Fu, S Wang, LC Stringer, Y Wang, Z Li… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2021 - nature.com
Abstract China has 6.6 million km2 of drylands that support approximately 580 million
people. These drylands are at risk of desertification. In this Review, the changes observed in …

Remote sensing of dryland ecosystem structure and function: Progress, challenges, and opportunities

WK Smith, MP Dannenberg, D Yan, S Herrmann… - Remote Sensing of …, 2019 - Elsevier
Drylands make up roughly 40% of the Earth's land surface, and billions of people depend on
services provided by these critically important ecosystems. Despite their relatively sparse …

GLEAM v3: Satellite-based land evaporation and root-zone soil moisture

B Martens, DG Miralles, H Lievens… - Geoscientific Model …, 2017 - gmd.copernicus.org
The Global Land Evaporation Amsterdam Model (GLEAM) is a set of algorithms dedicated to
the estimation of terrestrial evaporation and root-zone soil moisture from satellite data. Ever …

MSWEP: 3-hourly 0.25 global gridded precipitation (1979–2015) by merging gauge, satellite, and reanalysis data

HE Beck, AIJM Van Dijk, V Levizzani… - Hydrology and Earth …, 2017 - hess.copernicus.org
Current global precipitation (P) datasets do not take full advantage of the complementary
nature of satellite and reanalysis data. Here, we present Multi-Source Weighted-Ensemble …

Increased future occurrences of the exceptional 2018–2019 Central European drought under global warming

V Hari, O Rakovec, Y Markonis, M Hanel, R Kumar - Scientific reports, 2020 - nature.com
Since the spring 2018, a large part of Europe has been in the midst of a record-setting
drought. Using long-term observations, we demonstrate that the occurrence of the 2018 …

The three major axes of terrestrial ecosystem function

M Migliavacca, T Musavi, MD Mahecha, JA Nelson… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
The leaf economics spectrum, and the global spectrum of plant forms and functions revealed
fundamental axes of variation in plant traits, which represent different ecological strategies …

Global land-surface evaporation estimated from satellite-based observations

DG Miralles, TRH Holmes, RAM De Jeu… - Hydrology and Earth …, 2011 - hess.copernicus.org
This paper outlines a new strategy to derive evaporation from satellite observations. The
approach uses a variety of satellite-sensor products to estimate daily evaporation at a global …

Solar‐induced chlorophyll fluorescence is strongly correlated with terrestrial photosynthesis for a wide variety of biomes: First global analysis based on OCO‐2 and …

X Li, J **ao, B He, M Altaf Arain, J Beringer… - Global change …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Solar‐induced chlorophyll fluorescence (SIF) has been increasingly used as a proxy for
terrestrial gross primary productivity (GPP). Previous work mainly evaluated the relationship …

ECOSTRESS: NASA's next generation mission to measure evapotranspiration from the international space station

JB Fisher, B Lee, AJ Purdy… - Water Resources …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The ECOsystem Spaceborne Thermal Radiometer Experiment on Space Station
(ECOSTRESS) was launched to the International Space Station on 29 June 2018 by the …

A data-driven analysis of energy balance closure across FLUXNET research sites: The role of landscape scale heterogeneity

PC Stoy, M Mauder, T Foken, B Marcolla… - Agricultural and forest …, 2013 - Elsevier
The energy balance at most surface-atmosphere flux research sites remains unclosed. The
mechanisms underlying the discrepancy between measured energy inputs and outputs …