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 …

Intermittent rivers and ephemeral streams (IRES) are now recognized to support specific
freshwater biodiversity and ecosystem services and represent approximately half of the …

Abstract Groundwater in sub-Saharan Africa supports livelihoods and poverty alleviation,,
maintains vital ecosystems, and strongly influences terrestrial water and energy budgets. Yet …

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP)
mission has been validating its soil moisture (SM) products since the start of data production …

Abstract The NASA Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) mission Level‐4 Soil Moisture (L.
4_SM) product provides global, 3‐hourly, 9‐km resolution estimates of surface (0–5 cm) and …

Abstract Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) data is increasingly popular as a data source for
global near-surface soil moisture map**, but large-scale applications are still challenging …

The feasibility of soil moisture retrieval from C-band Sentinel-1 data has been widely
acknowledged, with pre-operational 1-km products currently available at regional and/or …

Pan-Africa convection-permitting regional climate model simulations have been performed
to study the impact of high resolution and the explicit representation of atmospheric moist …

Abstract In West Africa, climatic data issues, especially availability and quality, remain a
significant constraint to the development and application of distributed hydrological …

Soil moisture is a critical component of the climate system due to the link it provides between
atmospheric and terrestrial energy, water, and carbon cycles. A better understanding of …