Critical to the reliable application of gridded soil moisture products is a thorough assessment
of their quality at spatially compatible scales. While previous studies have attempted to …

Adequate characterization of catchment storage dynamics is crucial in hydrological models,
yet scale-representative storage measurements are rare. Recent developments in Cosmic …

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

Germany's 2018–2020 consecutive drought events resulted in multiple sectors–including
agriculture, forestry, water management, energy production, and transport–being impacted …

Estimating soil moisture based on synthetic aperture radar (SAR) data remains challenging
due to the influences of vegetation and surface roughness. Here we present an algorithm …

Core Ideas Numerous studies have been conducted to develop and examine the accuracy
of the method. Cosmic‐ray neutron soil moisture estimates compare well with independent …

Long-range weather forecasts provide predictions of atmospheric, ocean and land surface
conditions that can potentially be used in land surface and hydrological models to predict …

In recent years, wireless sensor network (WSN) technology has emerged as an important
technique for wireless sensing of soil moisture from the field to the catchment scale. This …

Cosmic ray neutron sensing (CRNS) has become a promising method for soil water content
(SWC) monitoring. Stationary CRNS offers hectare‐scale average SWC measurements at …

Foreknowledge of the spatiotemporal drivers of crop yield would provide a valuable source
of information to optimize on-farm inputs and maximize profitability. In recent years, an …