Passive microwave remote sensing observations at L-band provide key and global
information on surface soil moisture and vegetation water content, which are related to the …

Droughts in a warming climate have become more common and more extreme, making
understanding forest responses to water stress increasingly pressing. Analysis of water …

Climate change-driven increases in drought frequency and severity could compromise forest
ecosystems and the terrestrial carbon sink,–. While the impacts of single droughts on forests …

Plants influence the atmosphere through fluxes of carbon, water and energy, and can
intensify drought through land–atmosphere feedback effects,–. The diversity of plant …

Two passive microwave missions are currently operating at L-band to monitor surface soil
moisture (SM) over continental surfaces. The SMOS sensor, based on an innovative …

The enormous increase of remote sensing data from airborne and space-borne platforms, as
well as ground measurements has directed the attention of scientists towards new and …

Vegetation change plays a critical role in the Earth's carbon (C) budget and its associated
radiative forcing in response to anthropogenic and natural climate change,,,. Existing global …

Water potential directly controls the function of leaves, roots and microbes, and gradients in
water potential drive water flows throughout the soil–plant–atmosphere continuum …

Due to the success of the SMOS (Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity) and SMAP (Soil
Moisture Active Passive) missions, new satellite missions are on the horizon. The current …

A series of satellite-based passive and active microwave instruments provide soil moisture
retrievals spanning altogether more than three decades. This offers the opportunity to …