Soil hydrological processes (SHP) support ecosystems, modulate the impact of climate
change on terrestrial systems and control feedback mechanisms between water, energy and …

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 …

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 …

Critical to the reliable application of gridded soil moisture products is a thorough assessment
of their quality at spatially compatible scales. While previous studies have attempted to …

Climate change increases the occurrence and severity of droughts due to increasing
temperatures, altered circulation patterns, and reduced snow occurrence. While Europe has …

Abstract Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) data is increasingly popular as a data source for
global near-surface soil moisture map**, but large-scale applications are still challenging …

The 2018–2020 consecutive drought events in Germany resulted in impacts related with
several sectors such as agriculture, forestry, water management, industry, energy production …

Long-range weather forecasts provide predictions of atmospheric, ocean and land surface
conditions that can potentially be used in land surface and hydrological models to predict …

The production of crops secure the human food supply, but climate change is bringing new
challenges. Dynamic plant growth and corresponding environmental data are required to …

Watersheds are the basic unit of Earth's terrestrial systems and are therefore ideal units for
the study of critical zones (CZs). However, grand challenges remain regarding the …