ESA CCI Soil Moisture for improved Earth system understanding: State-of-the art and future directions

W Dorigo, W Wagner, C Albergel, F Albrecht… - Remote Sensing of …, 2017 - Elsevier
Abstract Climate Data Records of soil moisture are fundamental for improving our
understanding of long-term dynamics in the coupled water, energy, and carbon cycles over …

[HTML][HTML] Evaluation of 18 satellite-and model-based soil moisture products using in situ measurements from 826 sensors

HE Beck, M Pan, DG Miralles… - Hydrology and Earth …, 2021 - hess.copernicus.org
Abstract Information about the spatiotemporal variability of soil moisture is critical for many
purposes, including monitoring of hydrologic extremes, irrigation scheduling, and prediction …

Multi-layer high-resolution soil moisture estimation using machine learning over the United States

L Karthikeyan, AK Mishra - Remote Sensing of Environment, 2021 - Elsevier
The lack of proper understanding of multi-layer soil moisture (SM) profile (signals) remains a
persistent challenge in sustainable agricultural water management and food security …

Validation of soil moisture data products from the NASA SMAP mission

A Colliander, RH Reichle, WT Crow… - IEEE Journal of …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
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 …

Version 4 of the SMAP level‐4 soil moisture algorithm and data product

RH Reichle, Q Liu, RD Koster, WT Crow… - Journal of Advances …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The NASA Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) mission Level‐4 Soil Moisture (L.
4_SM) product provides global, 3‐hourly, 9‐km resolution estimates of surface (0–5 cm) and …

Drought monitoring with soil moisture active passive (SMAP) measurements

A Mishra, T Vu, AV Veettil, D Entekhabi - Journal of Hydrology, 2017 - Elsevier
Recent launch of space-borne systems to estimate surface soil moisture may expand the
capability to map soil moisture deficit and drought with global coverage. In this study, we use …

Downscaling SMAP radiometer soil moisture over the CONUS using an ensemble learning method

P Abbaszadeh, H Moradkhani… - Water Resources …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Soil moisture plays a critical role in improving the weather and climate forecast and
understanding terrestrial ecosystem processes. It is a key hydrologic variable in agricultural …

Irrigation signals detected from SMAP soil moisture retrievals

PM Lawston, JA Santanello Jr… - Geophysical Research …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Irrigation can influence weather and climate, but the magnitude, timing, and spatial extent of
irrigation are poorly represented in models, as are the resulting impacts of irrigation on the …

Flash droughts characterization over China: From a perspective of the rapid intensification rate

Y Liu, Y Zhu, L Zhang, L Ren, F Yuan, X Yang… - Science of the Total …, 2020 - Elsevier
Flash droughts, with rapid onset and strong intensity, have attracted much attention in recent
literature due to their devastating socio-agricultural impacts. Based on the microwave …

Soil moisture memory: State‐of‐the‐art and the way forward

M Rahmati, W Amelung, C Brogi, J Dari… - Reviews of …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Soil moisture is an essential climate variable of the Earth system. Understanding its
spatiotemporal dynamics is essential for predicting weather patterns and climate variability …