Green water—terrestrial precipitation, evaporation and soil moisture—is fundamental to
Earth system dynamics and is now extensively perturbed by human pressures at continental …

Soil hydrological processes (SHP) support ecosystems, modulate the impact of climate
change on terrestrial systems and control feedback mechanisms between water, energy and …

Abstract Framed within the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) of the European
Commission, the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) is …

Analyzing satellite images and remote sensing (RS) data using artificial intelligence (AI)
tools and data fusion strategies has recently opened new perspectives for environmental …

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 …

Hydrogeodesy, a relatively new field within the earth sciences, is the analysis of the
distribution and movement of terrestrial water at Earth's surface using measurements of …

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 …

Abstract ESA's Soil Moisture Ocean Salinity (SMOS, since 2009) and NASA's Soil Moisture
Active Passive (SMAP, since 2015) are the only two space-borne L-band radiometer …

Climate change increases the occurrence and severity of droughts due to increasing
temperatures, altered circulation patterns, and reduced snow occurrence. While Europe has …

Data assimilation plays a dual role in advancing the “scientific” understanding and serving
as an “engineering tool” for the Earth system sciences. Land data assimilation (LDA) has …