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

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 203, Issue , 2017, Pages 185-215

  Dorigo, Wouter ^a   Wagner, Wolfgang ^a   Albergel, Clement ^b   Albrecht, Franziska ^c   Balsamo, Gianpaolo ^d   Brocca, Luca ^e   Chung, Daniel ^a   Ertl, Martin ^f   Forkel, Matthias ^a   Gruber, Alexander ^a   Haas, Eva ^c   Hamer, Paul D ^g   Hirschi, Martin ^h   Ikonen, Jaakko ⁱ   de Jeu, Richard ^j   Kidd, Richard ^a   Lahoz, William ^g   Liu, Yi Y ^k   Miralles, Diego ^l,m   Mistelbauer, Thomas ^a   Nicolai Shaw, Nadine ^h   Parinussa, Robert ^j   Pratola, Chiara ^n,o   Reimer, Christoph ^a   van der Schalie, Robin ^j   Seneviratne, Sonia I ^h   Smolander, Tuomo ⁱ   Lecomte, Pascal ^p   more..

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b CENTRE NATIONAL DE RECHERCHES MÉTÉOROLOGIQUES   (France)

^c GeoVille GmbH   (Austria)

^d EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS   (United Kingdom)

^e CNR Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche   (Italy)

^f Angewandte Wissenschaft Software und Technologie GmbH   (Austria)

^g NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR AIR RESEARCH   (Norway)

^h Land Climate Dynamics Group   (Switzerland)

ⁱ FINNISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^j VanderSat BV   (Netherlands)

^k NANJING UNIVERSITY OF INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^l VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^m GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

ⁿ UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

^o Starlab   (Spain)

^p ESA Climate Office   (United Kingdom)

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Author keywords

Biogeochemistry; Climate change; Climate Data Record; Earth observation; Earth system modelling; Essential Climate Variable; Microwave remote sensing; Soil moisture

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; EARTH ATMOSPHERE; ECOLOGY; FLOOD CONTROL; FLOODS; MICROWAVE SENSORS; REMOTE SENSING; SOIL MOISTURE; SOIL SURVEYS; SPACE APPLICATIONS; SURFACE MEASUREMENT; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WEATHER FORECASTING; WEATHER SATELLITES;

CLIMATE DATA RECORDS; CLIMATE VARIABLES; EARTH OBSERVATIONS; EARTH SYSTEMS; MICROWAVE REMOTE SENSING;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; DATA SET; EARTH; LONG-TERM CHANGE; OBSERVATORY; SATELLITE ALTIMETRY; SATELLITE SENSOR; SOIL MOISTURE;

EID: 85019587713     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2017.07.001     Document Type: Article

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