Passive microwave remote sensing observations at L-band provide key and global
information on surface soil moisture and vegetation water content, which are related to the …

Land water storage plays a key role for the Earth's climate, natural ecosystems, and human
activities. Since the launch of the first Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) …

Earlier vegetation greening under climate change raises evapotranspiration and thus lowers
spring soil moisture, yet the extent and magnitude of this water deficit persistence into the …

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 …

Since the late 1970s, space-borne microwave radiometers have been providing
measurements of radiation emitted by the Earth's surface. From these measurements it is …

Vegetation is a key element in the energy, water and carbon balances over the land
surfaces and is strongly impacted by climate change and anthropogenic effects. Remotely …

Anthropogenic land use and land cover changes (LULCC) have a large impact on the global
terrestrial carbon sink, but this effect is not well characterized according to biogeographical …

Australia experienced multi-year drought and record high temperatures, and massive forest
fires occurred across the southeast in 2019 and early 2020. In the fire-affected forest areas …

Understanding what controls global leaf type variation in trees is crucial for comprehending
their role in terrestrial ecosystems, including carbon, water and nutrient dynamics. Yet our …

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 …