Global increase in biomass carbon stock dominated by growth of northern young forests over past decade

H Yang, P Ciais, F Frappart, X Li, M Brandt… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Abstract Changes in terrestrial carbon storage under environmental and land-use changes
remain a critical source of uncertainty in regional and global carbon budgets. We generated …

A new SMAP soil moisture and vegetation optical depth product (SMAP-IB): Algorithm, assessment and inter-comparison

X Li, JP Wigneron, L Fan, F Frappart, SH Yueh… - Remote Sensing of …, 2022 - Elsevier
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 …

Quantifying the contributions of climate change and human activities to vegetation dynamic in China based on multiple indices

Y Liu, H Liu, Y Chen, C Gang, Y Shen - Science of The Total Environment, 2022 - Elsevier
Distinguishing the respective roles of climate change and anthropogenic activities can
provide crucial information for sustainable management of the environment. Here, using the …

An assessment of L-band surface soil moisture products from SMOS and SMAP in the tropical areas

H Ma, X Li, J Zeng, X Zhang, J Dong, N Chen… - Remote Sensing of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Recently, large efforts have been made to develop surface soil moisture (SSM) products
based on observations from passive microwave L-band satellites at the global scale …

Evaluation of satellite and reanalysis estimates of surface and root-zone soil moisture in croplands of Jiangsu Province, China

L Fan, Z **ng, G De Lannoy, F Frappart, J Peng… - Remote Sensing of …, 2022 - Elsevier
High-quality and long-term surface soil moisture (SSM) and root-zone soil moisture (RZSM)
data are critical for agricultural water management of Jiangsu province, which is a major …

The first global soil moisture and vegetation optical depth product retrieved from fused SMOS and SMAP L-band observations

X Li, JP Wigneron, F Frappart, G De Lannoy… - Remote Sensing of …, 2022 - Elsevier
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 …

Global climate

RJH Dunn, JB Miller, KM Willett… - Bulletin of the …, 2023 - journals.ametsoc.org
Global Climate is one chapter from the State of the Climate in 2022 annual report and is
available from https://doi. org/10.1175/BAMS-D-23-0090.1. Compiled by NOAA's National …

Seasonal variations in vegetation water content retrieved from microwave remote sensing over Amazon intact forests

H Wang, JP Wigneron, P Ciais, Y Yao, L Fan… - Remote Sensing of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Vegetation optical depth (VOD) is seasonally sensitive to plant water content and
aboveground biomass. This index has a strong penetrability within the vegetation canopy …

Large loss and rapid recovery of vegetation cover and aboveground biomass over forest areas in Australia during 2019–2020

Y Qin, X **ao, JP Wigneron, P Ciais… - Remote Sensing of …, 2022 - Elsevier
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 …

True global error maps for SMAP, SMOS, and ASCAT soil moisture data based on machine learning and triple collocation analysis

H Kim, W Crow, X Li, W Wagner, S Hahn… - Remote Sensing of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Quantifying the accuracy of the satellite-based soil moisture (SM) data is important for a
number of key applications, such as: combining satellite-based SM products for long-term …