The International Soil Moisture Network: serving Earth system science for over a decade

W Dorigo, I Himmelbauer, D Aberer… - Hydrology and Earth …, 2021 - hess.copernicus.org
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 …

A review of recent developments on drought characterization, propagation, and influential factors

VMB Raposo, VAF Costa, AF Rodrigues - Science of the Total Environment, 2023 - Elsevier
Droughts have impacted human society throughout its history. However, the occurrence of
severe drought events in the last century and the concerns on the potential effects of climate …

[HTML][HTML] ERA5-Land: A state-of-the-art global reanalysis dataset for land applications

J Muñoz-Sabater, E Dutra… - … system science data, 2021 - essd.copernicus.org
Abstract Framed within the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) of the European
Commission, the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) is …

A 21-year dataset (2000–2020) of gap-free global daily surface soil moisture at 1-km grid resolution

C Zheng, L Jia, T Zhao - Scientific Data, 2023 - nature.com
Global soil moisture estimates from current satellite missions are suffering from inherent
discontinuous observations and coarse spatial resolution, which limit applications especially …

Global long term daily 1 km surface soil moisture dataset with physics informed machine learning

Q Han, Y Zeng, L Zhang, C Wang, E Prikaziuk, Z Niu… - Scientific Data, 2023 - nature.com
Although soil moisture is a key factor of hydrologic and climate applications, global
continuous high resolution soil moisture datasets are still limited. Here we use physics …

Surface soil moisture from combined active and passive microwave observations: Integrating ASCAT and SMAP observations based on machine learning approaches

H Ma, J Zeng, X Zhang, J Peng, X Li, P Fu… - Remote Sensing of …, 2024 - Elsevier
The fusion of active and passive microwave measurements is expected to provide more
robust surface soil moisture (SSM) map** across various environmental conditions …

[HTML][HTML] Improved daily SMAP satellite soil moisture prediction over China using deep learning model with transfer learning

Q Li, Z Wang, W Shangguan, L Li, Y Yao, F Yu - Journal of Hydrology, 2021 - Elsevier
The skillful soil moisture (SM) for the Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) L4 product can
provide substantial value for many practical applications including ecosystem management …

Global high-resolution drought indices for 1981–2022

SH Gebrechorkos, J Peng, E Dyer… - Earth System …, 2023 - essd.copernicus.org
Droughts are among the most complex and devastating natural hazards globally. High-
resolution datasets of drought metrics are essential for monitoring and quantifying the …

Soil moisture-evaporation coupling shifts into new gears under increasing CO2

H Hsu, PA Dirmeyer - Nature Communications, 2023 - nature.com
When soil moisture (SM) content falls within a transitional regime between dry and wet
conditions, it controls evaporation, affecting atmospheric heat and humidity. Accordingly …

Assessment of 24 soil moisture datasets using a new in situ network in the Shandian River Basin of China

J Zheng, T Zhao, H Lü, J Shi, MH Cosh, D Ji… - Remote Sensing of …, 2022 - Elsevier
A new soil moisture and soil temperature wireless sensor network (the SMN-SDR)
consisting of 34 sites was established within the Shandian River Basin in 2018, located in a …