Abstract The Tibetan Plateau (TP) impacts local and remote atmospheric circulations,
wherein it mechanically and thermally affects air masses or airflows. Moreover, the TP …

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 …

Soil moisture (SM) is a key hydrologic state variable that is of significant importance for
numerous Earth and environmental science applications that directly impact the global …

The European Space Agency's Climate Change Initiative for Soil Moisture (ESA CCI SM)
merging algorithm generates consistent quality-controlled long-term (1978–2018) climate …

Abstract The NASA Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) mission has utilized a set of core
validation sites as the primary methodology in assessing the soil moisture retrieval algorithm …

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 …

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 …

We propose a method for merging soil moisture retrievals from spaceborne active and
passive microwave instruments based on weighted averaging taking into account the error …

Abstract The Tibetan Plateau (TP) exerts strong thermal forcing on the atmosphere over
Asian monsoon region and supplies water resources to adjacent river basins. Recently, 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 …