Soil moisture is a key variable of the climate system. It constrains plant transpiration and
photosynthesis in several regions of the world, with consequent impacts on the water …

This paper describes a comprehensive assessment of a new high-resolution, gauge–
satellite-based analysis of daily precipitation over continental South America during 2004 …

Precipitation analysis and soil moisture from the Global Land Data Assimilation System
(GLDAS) are used to assess the land‐atmosphere coupling in boreal summer. Correlations …

Continued Amazonian deforestation perturbs the surface turbulent fluxes which are
important for building the conditions for the wet season onset in the southern Amazon. This …

Soil moisture observations from seven observational networks (spanning portions of seven
states) with different biome and climate conditions were used in this study to evaluate …

Balsamo, G., Beljaars A., Scipal K., Viterbo P., van den Hurk B., Hirschi M., and Betts AK,
2009: A revised hydrology for the ECMWF model: Verification from field site to terrestrial …

This study examines the capability of a new microwave land data assimilation system
(LDAS) for estimating soil moisture in semiarid regions, where soil moisture is very …

This article discusses the feedbacks between soil moisture and precipitation during the early
stages of the South American monsoon. The system achieves maximum precipitation over …

Very few frameworks exist that estimate global-scale soil moisture through microwave land
data assimilation (DA). Toward this goal, such a framework has been developed by linking …

The earth's surface continuously interacts with the overlying atmosphere through the
exchange of mass, moisture and momentum, thereby altering the energy and water cycles …