[HTML][HTML] Validation practices for satellite soil moisture retrievals: What are (the) errors?

A Gruber, G De Lannoy, C Albergel, A Al-Yaari… - Remote sensing of …, 2020 - Elsevier
This paper presents a community effort to develop good practice guidelines for the validation
of global coarse-scale satellite soil moisture products. We provide theoretical background, a …

The global biomass of wild mammals

L Greenspoon, E Krieger, R Sender… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - pnas.org
Wild mammals are icons of conservation efforts, yet there is no rigorous estimate available
for their overall global biomass. Biomass as a metric allows us to compare species with very …

Toward a forest biomass reference measurement system for remote sensing applications

N Labrière, SJ Davies, MI Disney… - Global Change …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Forests contribute to climate change mitigation through carbon storage and uptake, but the
extent to which this carbon pool varies in space and time is still poorly known. Several Earth …

Slowdown of Antarctic Bottom Water export driven by climatic wind and sea-ice changes

S Zhou, AJS Meijers, MP Meredith… - Nature climate …, 2023 - nature.com
Abstract Antarctic Bottom Water (AABW) is pivotal for oceanic heat and carbon
sequestrations on multidecadal to millennial timescales. The Weddell Sea contributes nearly …

Snow depth variability in the Northern Hemisphere mountains observed from space

H Lievens, M Demuzere, HP Marshall… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Accurate snow depth observations are critical to assess water resources. More than a billion
people rely on water from snow, most of which originates in the Northern Hemisphere …

The arrival of fast internet and employment in Africa

J Hjort, J Poulsen - American Economic Review, 2019 - aeaweb.org
To show how fast Internet affects employment in Africa, we exploit the gradual arrival of
submarine Internet cables on the coast and maps of the terrestrial cable network. Robust …

Version 2 of the EUMETSAT OSI SAF and ESA CCI sea-ice concentration climate data records

T Lavergne, AM Sørensen, S Kern, R Tonboe… - The …, 2019 - tc.copernicus.org
We introduce the OSI-450, the SICCI-25km and the SICCI-50km climate data records of
gridded global sea-ice concentration. These three records are derived from passive …

Development and assessment of the SMAP enhanced passive soil moisture product

SK Chan, R Bindlish, P O'Neill, T Jackson… - Remote sensing of …, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract Launched in January 2015, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration
(NASA) Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) observatory was designed to provide frequent …

Assessment of the SMAP passive soil moisture product

SK Chan, R Bindlish, PE O'Neill, E Njoku… - … on Geoscience and …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Soil Moisture Active Passive
(SMAP) satellite mission was launched on January 31, 2015. The observatory was …

Validation of soil moisture data products from the NASA SMAP mission

A Colliander, RH Reichle, WT Crow… - IEEE Journal of …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
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 …