{"type": "FeatureCollection", "features": [{"id": "10.5281/zenodo.15096788", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-07-25T16:22:57Z", "type": "Dataset", "title": "HWSD2_Climate_and_Socioeconomic_agriculturalsoil_dataset_mainland_portugal", "description": "The study uses the Harmonized World Soil Database (HWSD v2.0) developed by FAO and IIASA for biophysical models and agroecological queries. This database consolidates information from various sources, including the European Soil Database, the 1:1 million soil map of China, and national soil maps from Afghanistan, Ghana, and T\u00fcrkiye. It has a spatial resolution of around 1 km and is revised in 2013 and 2023. HWSD v2.0 includes detailed information on soil mapping units, general soil unit information, and specific physical and chemical soil unit characteristics across seven depth layers.  The database fields cover a wide range of attributes, such as soil texture, bulk density, organic carbon content, pH, and cation exchange capacity. The harmonization process ensures that data from different sources is standardized and integrated, providing a consistent and reliable dataset for various applications. However, the HWSD v2.0 has some limitations, such as combining soil inventories gathered at different times, scales, and precision, which may affect its reliability for national studies. It is recommended to use national-level harmonized soil databases for more accurate results in specific regions.  For Portugal's mainland, the data presented in the HWSD v2.0 dataset is sourced from the European Soil Data Centre (ESDAC), which contains various metrics of chemical and physical soil properties. Out of the 2882 Portuguese parishes, only 22 are left out, representing 0.76% percent of the total number of parishes.  The study uses several datasets to analyze land use and occupation in Portugal. The Land Use and Occupation Map (COS2007v3.0) is a detailed thematic map of land use and occupation for mainland Portugal, developed by the Directorate-General for Territory (DGT). The data is organized hierarchically and includes 83 classes of land use and occupation. The CHELSA database, maintained by the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow, and Landscape Research (WSL), provides bioclimatic indexes for precipitation and average temperature over various temporal intervals and variables.  The National Institute of Statistics (INE) provides data on agricultural machinery distribution across different geographical locations. The dataset covers the total number of agricultural machines, as well as specific categories such as wheeled and tracked tractors, motor cultivators, power hoes, motor mowers, and combine harvesters. The dataset also examines the distribution of farms with access to irrigation based on geographical location.  The burned land data from 1975 to 2023 provides a comprehensive overview of fire occurrences and their impact over time. This data is crucial for understanding long-term patterns, assessing the effectiveness of fire prevention measures, and informing future land management and policy decisions.  Lastly, the population density dataset from the 2021 Census and the 2011 Census provides a decennial comparison of total population density across different geographical regions. These data are essential for understanding the evolution of land use and occupation in Portugal and their implications for environmental and agricultural consequences.", "keywords": ["Soil", "Total organic carbon", "Land use", "Soil use", "Atmospheric precipitation", "Soil type", "Organic carbon", "Land surface temperature"], "contacts": [{"organization": "Almeida Santos, R. G. F.", "roles": ["creator"]}]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15096788"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.5281/zenodo.15096788", "name": "item", "description": "10.5281/zenodo.15096788", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.5281/zenodo.15096788"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2025-03-27T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1002/2017JD027346", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-07-25T16:14:19Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2017-12-28", "title": "Soil Moisture-Temperature Coupling in a Set of Land Surface Models", "description": "Abstract<p>The land surface controls the partitioning of water and energy fluxes and therefore plays a crucial role in the climate system. The coupling between soil moisture and air temperature, in particular, has been shown to affect the severity and occurrence of temperature extremes and heat waves. Here we study soil moisture\uffe2\uff80\uff90temperature coupling in five land surface models, focusing on the terrestrial segment of the coupling in the warm season. All models are run off\uffe2\uff80\uff90line over a common period with identical atmospheric forcing data, in order to allow differences in the results to be attributed to the models' partitioning of energy and water fluxes. Coupling is calculated according to two semiempirical metrics, and results are compared to observational flux tower data. Results show that the locations of the global hot spots of soil moisture\uffe2\uff80\uff90temperature coupling are similar across all models and for both metrics. In agreement with previous studies, these areas are located in transitional climate regimes. The magnitude and local patterns of model coupling, however, can vary considerably. Model coupling fields are compared to tower data, bearing in mind the limitations in the geographical distribution of flux towers and the differences in representative area of models and in situ data. Nevertheless, model coupling correlates in space with the tower\uffe2\uff80\uff90based results (r = 0.5\uffe2\uff80\uff930.7), with the multimodel mean performing similarly to the best\uffe2\uff80\uff90performing model. Intermodel differences are also found in the evaporative fractions and may relate to errors in model parameterizations and ancillary data of soil and vegetation characteristics.</p>", "keywords": ["ENVIRONMENT SIMULATOR JULES", "FLUXES", "0207 environmental engineering", "02 engineering and technology", "01 natural sciences", "CO2 EXCHANGE", "models", "WATER", "SCALE", "Research Articles", "0105 earth and related environmental sciences", "land surface", "CARBON-DIOXIDE EXCHANGE", "eartH2Observe", "temperature", "15. Life on land", "DECIDUOUS FOREST", "CLIMATE", "EVAPORATION", "VARIABILITY", "13. Climate action", "Earth and Environmental Sciences", "BALANCE", "land surface models", "SENSIBLE HEAT", "land-atmosphere interactions", "soil moisture"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/2017JD027346"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.1002/2017JD027346"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Journal%20of%20Geophysical%20Research%3A%20Atmospheres", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1002/2017JD027346", "name": "item", "description": "10.1002/2017JD027346", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1002/2017JD027346"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2018-02-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1016/j.agrformet.2018.02.033", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-07-25T16:15:42Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2018-03-20", "title": "Calibrating an evapotranspiration model using radiometric surface temperature, vegetation cover fraction and near-surface soil moisture data", "description": "An accurate representation of the partitioning between soil evaporation and plant transpiration is an asset for modeling crop evapotranspiration (ET) along the agricultural season. The Two-Surface energy Balance (TSEB) model operates the ET partitioning by using the land surface temperature (LST), vegetation cover fraction (fc), and the Priestley Taylor (PT) assumption that relates transpiration to net radiation via a fixed PT coefficient (\u03b1PT). To help constrain the evaporation/transpiration partition of TSEB, a new model (named TSEB-SM) is developed by using, in addition to LST and fc data, the near-surface soil moisture (SM) as an extra constraint on soil evaporation. An innovative calibration procedure is proposed to retrieve three key parameters: \u03b1PT and the parameters (arss and brss) of a soil resistance formulation. Specifically, arss and brss are retrieved at the seasonal time scale from SM and LST data with fc\u202f \u202f0.5. The new ET model named TSEB-SM is tested over 1 flood- and 2 drip-irrigated wheat fields using in situ data collected during two field experiments in 2002\u20132003 and 2016\u20132017. The calibration algorithm is found to be remarkably stable as \u03b1PT, arss and brss parameters converge rapidly in few (2\u20133) iterations. Retrieved values of \u03b1PT, arss and brss are in the range 0.0\u20131.4, 5.7\u20139.5, and 1.4\u20136.9, respectively. Calibrated daily \u03b1PT mainly follows the phenology of winter wheat crop with a maximum value coincident with the full development of green biomass and a minimum value reached at harvest. The temporal variations of \u03b1PT before senescence are attributed to the dynamics of both root-zone soil moisture. Moreover, the overall (for the three sites) root mean square difference between the ET simulated by TSEB-SM and eddy-covariance measurements is 67\u202fW\u202fm\u22122 (24% relative error), compared to 108\u202fW\u202fm\u22122 (38% relative error) for the original version of TSEB using default parameterization (\u03b1PT\u202f=\u202f1.26). Such a calibration strategy has great potential for applications at multiple scales using remote sensing data including thermal-derived LST, solar reflectance-derived fc and microwave-derived SM.", "keywords": ["Priestley-taylor coefficient", "2. Zero hunger", "550", "TSEB modifid", "[SDE.IE]Environmental Sciences/Environmental Engineering", "0207 environmental engineering", "02 engineering and technology", "Vegetation cover fraction", "15. 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FAO-56 is one of the widely used formulations to estimate the actual crop evapotranspiration (ET c act) due to its operational nature and since it represents a reasonable compromise between simplicity and accuracy. In this vein, the objective of this paper was to examine the possibility of improving ET c act estimates through remote sensing data assimilation. For this purpose, remotely sensed soil moisture (SM) and Land surface temperature (LST) data were simultaneously assimilated into FAO-dualK c. Surface SM observations were assimilated into the soil evaporation (E s) component through the soil evaporation coefficient, and LST data were assimilated into the actual crop transpiration (T c act) component through the crop stress coefficient. The LST data were used to estimate the water stress coefficient (K s) as a proxy of LST (LST proxy). The FAO-Ks was corrected by assimilating LST proxy derived from Landsat data based on the variances of predicted errors on K s estimates from FAO-56 model and thermal-derived K s. The proposed approach was tested over a semi-arid area in Morocco using first, in situ data collected during 2002-2003 and 2015-2016 wheat growth seasons over two different fields and then, remotely sensed data derived from disaggregated Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) SM and Landsat-LST sensors were used. Assimilating SM data leads to an improvement of the ET c act model prediction: the root mean square error (RMSE) decreased from 0.98 to 0.65 mm/day compared to the classical FAO-dualK c using in situ SM. Moreover, assimilating both in situ SM and LST data provided more accurate results with a RMSE error of 0.55 mm/day. By using SMAP-based SM and Landsat-LST, results also improved in comparison with standard FAO and reached a RMSE of 0.73 mm/day against eddy-covariance ET c act measurements.", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "0106 biological sciences", "Evapotranspiration", "550", "Evapotranspiration Data assimilation FAO-dualK c Soil moisture Land surface temperature", "0207 environmental engineering", "02 engineering and technology", "15. Life on land", "01 natural sciences", "[SDU.ENVI] Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Continental interfaces", " environment", "6. Clean water", "FAO-dualK(c)", "13. Climate action", "Data assimilation", "[SDU.STU.HY] Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Hydrology", "Soil moisture", "[SDU.STU.HY]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Hydrology", "[SDU.ENVI]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Continental interfaces", "environment", "Land surface temperature"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agwat.2021.107290"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Agricultural%20Water%20Management", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1016/j.agwat.2021.107290", "name": "item", "description": "10.1016/j.agwat.2021.107290", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1016/j.agwat.2021.107290"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2022-02-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1016/j.rse.2016.11.010", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-07-25T16:16:50Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2016-11-26", "title": "Normalizing land surface temperature data for elevation and illumination effects in mountainous areas: A case study using ASTER data over a steep-sided valley in Morocco", "description": "Abstract   The remotely sensed land surface temperature (LST) is a key parameter to monitor surface energy and water fluxes but the strong impact of topography on LST has limited its use to mostly flat areas. To fill the gap, this study proposes a physically-based method to normalize LST data for topographic - namely illumination and elevation - effects over mountainous areas. Both topographic effects are first quantified by inverting a dual-source soil/vegetation energy balance (EB) model forced by 1) the instantaneous solar radiation simulated by a 3D radiative transfer model named DART (Discrete Anisotropic Radiative Transfer) that uses a digital elevation model (DEM), 2) a satellite-derived vegetation index, and 3) local meteorological (air temperature, air relative humidity and wind speed) data available at a given location. The satellite LST is then normalized for topography by simulating the LST using both pixel- and image-scale DART solar radiation and elevation data. The approach is tested on three ASTER (Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer) overpass dates over a steep-sided 6\u00a0km by 6\u00a0km area in the Atlas Mountain in Morocco. The mean correlation coefficient and root mean square difference (RMSD) between EB-simulated and ASTER LST is 0.80 and 3\u00a0\u00b0C, respectively. Moreover, the EB-based method is found to be more accurate than a more classical approach based on a multi-linear regression with DART solar radiation and elevation data. The EB-simulated LST is also evaluated against an extensive ground dataset of 135 autonomous 1-cm depth temperature sensors deployed over the study area. While the mean RMSD between 90\u00a0m resolution ASTER LST and localized ibutton measurements is 6.1\u00a0\u00b0C, the RMSD between EB-simulated LST and ibutton soil temperature is 5.4 and 5.3\u00a0\u00b0C for a DEM at 90\u00a0m and 8\u00a0m resolution, respectively. The proposed topographic normalization is self-calibrated from (LST, DEM, vegetation index and in situ meteorological data) data available over large extents. As a significant perspective this approach opens the path to using normalized LST as input to evapotranspiration retrieval methods based on LST.", "keywords": ["[SDE] Environmental Sciences", "550", "Topographic normalization", "DEM", "0207 environmental engineering", "Energy balance", "02 engineering and technology", "01 natural sciences", "ASTER", "13. Climate action", "[SDE]Environmental Sciences", "DART", "Land surface temperature", "0105 earth and related environmental sciences"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2016.11.010"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Remote%20Sensing%20of%20Environment", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1016/j.rse.2016.11.010", "name": "item", "description": "10.1016/j.rse.2016.11.010", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1016/j.rse.2016.11.010"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2017-02-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1016/j.rse.2019.111627", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-07-25T16:16:51Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2020-01-10", "title": "Irrigation retrieval from Landsat optical/thermal data integrated into a crop water balance model: A case study over winter wheat fields in a semi-arid region", "description": "Abstract   Monitoring irrigation is essential for an efficient management of water resources in arid and semi-arid regions. We propose to estimate the timing and the amount of irrigation throughout the agricultural season using optical and thermal Landsat-7/8 data. The approach is implemented in four steps: i) partitioning the Landsat land surface temperature (LST) to derive the crop water stress coefficient (Ks), ii) estimating the daily root zone soil moisture (RZSM) from the integration of Landsat-derived Ks into a crop water balance model, iii) retrieving irrigation at the Landsat pixel scale and iv) aggregating pixel-scale irrigation estimates at the crop field scale. The new irrigation retrieval method is tested over three agricultural areas during four seasons and is evaluated over five winter wheat fields under different irrigation techniques (drip, flood and no-irrigation). The model is very accurate for the seasonal accumulated amounts (R ~ 0.95 and RMSE ~ 44\u00a0mm). However, lower agreements with observed irrigations are obtained at the daily scale. To assess the performance of the irrigation retrieval method over a range of time periods, the daily predicted and observed irrigations are cumulated from 1 to 90\u00a0days. Generally, acceptable errors (R\u00a0=\u00a00.52 and RMSE\u00a0=\u00a027\u00a0mm) are obtained for irrigations cumulated over 15\u00a0days and the performance gradually improves by increasing the accumulation period, depicting a strong link to the frequency of Landsat overpasses (16\u00a0days or 8\u00a0days by combining Landsat-7 and -8). Despite the uncertainties in retrieved irrigations at daily to weekly scales, the daily RZSM and evapotranspiration simulated from the retrieved daily irrigations are estimated accurately and are very close to those estimated from actual irrigations. This research demonstrates the utility of high spatial resolution optical and thermal data for estimating irrigation and consequently for better closing the water budget over agricultural areas. We also show that significant improvements can be expected at daily to weekly time scales by reducing the revisit time of high-spatial resolution thermal data, as included in the TRISHNA future mission requirements.", "keywords": ["[SDE] Environmental Sciences", "2. Zero hunger", "550", "Evapotranspiration", "0208 environmental biotechnology", "Root-zone soil moisture", "0207 environmental engineering", "FAO-56 model", "02 engineering and technology", "15. Life on land", "630", "[SDU.ENVI] Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Continental interfaces", " environment", "6. Clean water", "[SDE]Environmental Sciences", "[SDU.STU.HY] Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Hydrology", "[SDU.STU.HY]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Hydrology", "[SDU.ENVI]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Continental interfaces", "environment", "Irrigation", "Landsat", "Land surface temperature"], "contacts": [{"organization": "Olivera-Guerra, Luis Enrique, Merlin, Olivier, Er-Raki, Salah,", "roles": ["creator"]}]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2019.111627"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Remote%20Sensing%20of%20Environment", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1016/j.rse.2019.111627", "name": "item", "description": "10.1016/j.rse.2019.111627", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1016/j.rse.2019.111627"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2020-03-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1111/gcb.14604", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-07-25T16:18:45Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2019-02-27", "title": "Effects of mesophyll conductance on vegetation responses to elevated CO 2 concentrations in a land surface model", "description": "Abstract<p>Mesophyll conductance (gm) is known to affect plant photosynthesis. However,gmis rarely explicitly considered in land surface models (LSMs), with the consequence that its role in ecosystem and large\uffe2\uff80\uff90scale carbon and water fluxes is poorly understood. In particular, the different magnitudes ofgmacross plant functional types (PFTs) are expected to cause spatially divergent vegetation responses to elevated CO2concentrations. Here, an extensive literature compilation ofgmacross major vegetation types is used to parameterize an empirical model ofgmin the LSM JSBACH and to adjust photosynthetic parameters based on simulatedAn\uffc2\uffa0\uffe2\uff88\uff92\uffc2\uffa0Cicurves. We demonstrate that an explicit representation ofgmchanges the response of photosynthesis to environmental factors, which cannot be entirely compensated by adjusting photosynthetic parameters. These altered responses lead to changes in the photosynthetic sensitivity to atmospheric CO2concentrations which depend both on the magnitude ofgmand the climatic conditions, particularly temperature. We then conducted simulations under ambient and elevated (ambient\uffc2\uffa0+\uffc2\uffa0200\uffc2\uffa0\uffce\uffbcmol/mol) CO2concentrations for contrasting ecosystems and for historical and anticipated future climate conditions (representative concentration pathways; RCPs) globally. Thegm\uffe2\uff80\uff90explicit simulations using the RCP8.5 scenario resulted in significantly higher increases in gross primary productivity (GPP) in high latitudes (+10% to + 25%), intermediate increases in temperate regions (+5% to + 15%), and slightly lower to moderately higher responses in tropical regions (\uffe2\uff88\uff922% to +5%), which summed up to moderate GPP increases globally. Similar patterns were found for transpiration, but with a lower magnitude. Our results suggest that the effect of an explicit representation ofgmis most important for simulated carbon and water fluxes in the boreal zone, where a cold climate coincides with evergreen vegetation.</p>", "keywords": ["0106 biological sciences", "0301 basic medicine", "550", "Climate", "mesophyll conductance", "photosynthetic CO sensitivity", "01 natural sciences", "land surface modeling", "Carbon Cycle", "03 medical and health sciences", "photosynthetic CO2 sensitivity", "XXXXXX - Unknown", "representative concentration pathways", "Photosynthesis", "Ecosystem", "580", "photosynthesis", "plants", "Temperature", "elevated CO concentrations", "carbon dioxide", "Carbon Dioxide", "Models", " Theoretical", "Plants", "15. Life on land", "Primary Research Articles", "13. Climate action", "elevated CO2 concentrations"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/gcb.14604"}, {"href": "https://openresearch-repository.anu.edu.au/bitstream/1885/195677/5/01_Knauer_Effects_of_mesophyll_2019.pdf.jpg"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.14604"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Global%20Change%20Biology", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1111/gcb.14604", "name": "item", "description": "10.1111/gcb.14604", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1111/gcb.14604"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2019-03-23T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1111/gcb.16394", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-07-25T16:18:46Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2022-08-17", "title": "Lowering water table reduces carbon sink strength and carbon stocks in northern peatlands", "description": "Abstract<p>Peatlands at high latitudes have accumulated &gt;400\uffe2\uff80\uff89Pg carbon (C) because saturated soil and cold temperatures suppress C decomposition. This substantial amount of C in Arctic and Boreal peatlands is potentially subject to increased decomposition if the water table (WT) decreases due to climate change, including permafrost thaw\uffe2\uff80\uff90related drying. Here, we optimize a version of the Organizing Carbon and Hydrology In Dynamic Ecosystems model (ORCHIDEE\uffe2\uff80\uff90PCH4) using site\uffe2\uff80\uff90specific observations to investigate changes in CO2 and CH4 fluxes as well as C stock responses to an experimentally manipulated decrease of WT at six northern peatlands. The unmanipulated control peatlands, with the WT &lt;20\uffe2\uff80\uff89cm on average (seasonal max up to 45\uffe2\uff80\uff89cm) below the surface, currently act as C sinks in most years (58\uffe2\uff80\uff89\uffc2\uffb1\uffe2\uff80\uff8934\uffe2\uff80\uff89g C\uffe2\uff80\uff89m\uffe2\uff88\uff922\uffc2\uffa0year\uffe2\uff88\uff921; including 6\uffe2\uff80\uff89\uffc2\uffb1\uffe2\uff80\uff897\uffe2\uff80\uff89g C\uffe2\uff80\uff93CH4 m\uffe2\uff88\uff922\uffc2\uffa0year\uffe2\uff88\uff921 emission). We found, however, that lowering the WT by 10\uffe2\uff80\uff89cm reduced the CO2 sink by 13\uffe2\uff80\uff89\uffc2\uffb1\uffe2\uff80\uff8915\uffe2\uff80\uff89g\uffe2\uff80\uff89C\uffe2\uff80\uff89m\uffe2\uff88\uff922\uffc2\uffa0year\uffe2\uff88\uff921 and decreased CH4 emission by 4\uffe2\uff80\uff89\uffc2\uffb1\uffe2\uff80\uff894\uffe2\uff80\uff89g CH4 m\uffe2\uff88\uff922\uffc2\uffa0year\uffe2\uff88\uff921, thus accumulating less C over 100\uffe2\uff80\uff89years (0.2\uffe2\uff80\uff89\uffc2\uffb1\uffe2\uff80\uff890.2\uffe2\uff80\uff89kg\uffe2\uff80\uff89C\uffe2\uff80\uff89m\uffe2\uff88\uff922). Yet, the reduced emission of CH4, which has a larger greenhouse warming potential, resulted in a net decrease in greenhouse gas balance by 310\uffe2\uff80\uff89\uffc2\uffb1\uffe2\uff80\uff89360\uffe2\uff80\uff89g\uffe2\uff80\uff89CO2\uffe2\uff80\uff90eq\uffc2\uffa0m\uffe2\uff88\uff922\uffc2\uffa0year\uffe2\uff88\uff921. Peatlands with the initial WT close to the soil surface were more vulnerable to C loss: Non\uffe2\uff80\uff90permafrost peatlands lost &gt;2\uffe2\uff80\uff89kg\uffe2\uff80\uff89C\uffe2\uff80\uff89m\uffe2\uff88\uff922 over 100\uffe2\uff80\uff89years when WT is lowered by 50\uffe2\uff80\uff89cm, while permafrost peatlands temporally switched from C sinks to sources. These results highlight that reductions in C storage capacity in response to drying of northern peatlands are offset in part by reduced CH4 emissions, thus slightly reducing the positive carbon climate feedbacks of peatlands under a warmer and drier future climate scenario.</p", "keywords": ["570", "Carbon Sequestration", "permafrost thaw", "land surface model", "551", "01 natural sciences", "manipulation experiment", "Greenhouse Gases", "Soil", "[SDU.ENVI]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Continental interfaces", " environment", "Groundwater", "Research Articles", "Ecosystem", "0105 earth and related environmental sciences", "[SDU.OCEAN]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Ocean", " Atmosphere", "[SDU.OCEAN]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Ocean", "Atmosphere", "[SDU.OCEAN] Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Ocean", " Atmosphere", "carbon stock", "high latitude", "Carbon Dioxide", "15. Life on land", "[SDU.ENVI] Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Continental interfaces", " environment", "Carbon", "carbon flux", "13. Climate action", "[SDU.ENVI]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Continental interfaces", "environment", "Methane", "drainage"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/190653/1/Global%20Change%20Biology%20-%202022%20-%20Kwon%20-%20Lowering%20water%20table%20reduces%20carbon%20sink%20strength%20and%20carbon%20stocks%20in%20northern.pdf"}, {"href": "https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/gcb.16394"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.16394"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Global%20Change%20Biology", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1111/gcb.16394", "name": "item", "description": "10.1111/gcb.16394", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1111/gcb.16394"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2022-08-30T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.3390/rs13040727", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-07-25T16:21:07Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2021-02-17", "title": "On the Utility of High-Resolution Soil Moisture Data for Better Constraining Thermal-Based Energy Balance over Three Semi-Arid Agricultural Areas", "description": "<p>Over semi-arid agricultural areas, the surface energy balance and its components are largely dependent on the soil water availability. In such conditions, the land surface temperature (LST) retrieved from the thermal bands has been commonly used to represent the high spatial variability of the surface evaporative fraction and associated fluxes. In contrast, however, the soil moisture (SM) retrieved from microwave data has rarely been used thus far due to the unavailability of high-resolution (field scale) SM products until recent times. Soil evaporation is controlled by the surface SM. Moreover, the surface SM dynamics is temporally related to root zone SM, which provides information about the water status of plants. The aim of this work was to assess the gain in terms of flux estimates when integrating microwave-derived SM data in a thermal-based energy balance model at the field scale. In this study, SM products were derived from three different methodologies: the first approach inverts SM, labeled hereafter as \uffe2\uff80\uff98SMO20\uffe2\uff80\uff99, from the backscattering coefficient and the interferometric coherence derived from Sentinel-1 products in the water cloud model (WCM); the second approach inverts SM from Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 data based on machine learning algorithms trained on a synthetic dataset simulated by the WCM noted \uffe2\uff80\uff98SME16\uffe2\uff80\uff99; and the third approach disaggregates the soil moisture active and passive SM at 100 m resolution using Landsat optical/thermal data \uffe2\uff80\uff98SMO19\uffe2\uff80\uff99. These SM products, combined with the Landsat based vegetation index and LST, are integrated simultaneously within an energy balance model (TSEB-SM) to predict the latent (LE) and sensible (H) heat fluxes over two irrigated and rainfed wheat crop sites located in the Haouz Plain in the center of Morocco. H and LE were measured over each site using an eddy covariance system and their values were used to evaluate the potential of TSEB-SM against the classical two source energy balance (TSEB) model solely based on optical/thermal data. Globally, TSEB systematically overestimates LE (mean bias of 100 W/m2) and underestimates H (mean bias of \uffe2\uff88\uff92110 W/m2), while TSEB-SM significantly reduces those biases, regardless of the SM product used as input. This is linked to the parameterization of the Priestley Taylor coefficient, which is set to \uffce\uffb1PT = 1.26 by default in TSEB and adjusted across the season in TSEB-SM. The best performance of TSEB-SM was obtained over the irrigated field using the three retrieved SM products with a mean R2 of 0.72 and 0.92, and a mean RMSE of 31 and 36 W/m2 for LE and H, respectively. This opens up perspectives for applying the TSEB-SM model over extended irrigated agricultural areas to better predict the crop water needs at the field scale.</p>", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "550", "Science", "Q", "0208 environmental biotechnology", "0207 environmental engineering", "TSEB-SM", "land surface temperature", "02 engineering and technology", "15. Life on land", "surface soil moisture", "[SDU.ENVI] Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Continental interfaces", " environment", "6. Clean water", "winter wheat", "13. Climate action", "semi-arid region", "[SDU.STU.HY] Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Hydrology", "[SDU.STU.HY]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Hydrology", "[SDU.ENVI]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Continental interfaces", "TSEB", "environment", "vegetation index"]}, "links": [{"href": "http://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/13/4/727/pdf"}, {"href": "https://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/13/4/727/pdf"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.3390/rs13040727"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Remote%20Sensing", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.3390/rs13040727", "name": "item", "description": "10.3390/rs13040727", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.3390/rs13040727"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2021-02-17T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.3390/app12126068", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-07-25T16:20:56Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2022-06-16", "title": "Comparison of Methods for Reconstructing MODIS Land Surface Temperature under Cloudy Conditions", "description": "<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><article><p>Land surface temperature (LST) is a vital parameter associated with the land\u2013atmosphere interface. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) LST product can provide precise LST with high time resolution, and is widely applied in various remote sensing temperature research. However, due to its inability to penetrate the cloud and fog, its quality is not able to meet the requirements of actual research. Hence, obtaining continuous and cloudless MODIS LST datasets remains challenging for researchers. The critical point is to reconstruct missing pixels. To compare the performance of different methods, first, three kinds of methods were used to reconstruct the missing pixels, namely, temporal, spatial, and spatiotemporal methods. The predicted values using these methods were validated by the automatic weather system data (AWS) in the Heihe river basin of China. The results demonstrated that, compared with other methods, linear temporal interpolation using Aqua data had the best performance in MODIS LST reconstruction in the Heihe river basin, with an RMSE of 7.13 K and an R2 of 0.82, and the NSE and PBias were 0.78 and \u22120.76%, respectively. Furthermore, the interpolation method was improved using adaptive windows and robust regression. First, the international Geosphere\u2013Biosphere Program (IGBP) classification was employed to distinguish the different land surface types. Then, the invalid LST values were reconstructed using adjacent days\u2019 effective LST values combined with a robust regression. Finally, a mean filter was applied to eliminate outliers. The overall results combined with ERA5 data were validated by AWS, with an RMSE of 6.96 K and an R2 of 0.79 and the NSE and PBias were 0.77 and \u22120.20%, respectively. The validation demonstrated that the scheme proposed in this paper is able to accurately reconstruct the missing values and improve the accuracy of the interpolation method to a certain extent when reconstructing MODIS LST.</p></article>", "keywords": ["Technology", "land surface temperature (LST)", "reconstruction", "land surface temperature (LST); remote sensing; interpolation; reconstruction; MODIS", "QH301-705.5", "T", "Physics", "QC1-999", "Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General)", "01 natural sciences", "interpolation", "6. Clean water", "Chemistry", "remote sensing", "MODIS", "13. Climate action", "TA1-2040", "Biology (General)", "QD1-999", "0105 earth and related environmental sciences"]}, "links": [{"href": "http://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/12/12/6068/pdf"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.3390/app12126068"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Applied%20Sciences", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.3390/app12126068", "name": "item", "description": "10.3390/app12126068", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.3390/app12126068"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2022-06-15T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.3390/rs9070684", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-07-25T16:21:09Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2017-07-04", "title": "Multiple Regression Analysis for Unmixing of Surface Temperature Data in an Urban Environment", "description": "<p>Global climate change and increasing urbanization worldwide intensify the need for a better understanding of human heat stress dynamics in urban systems. During heat waves, which are expected to increase in number and intensity, the development of urban cool islands could be a lifesaver for many elderly and vulnerable people. The use of remote sensing data offers the unique possibility to study these dynamics with spatially distributed large datasets during all seasons of the year and including day and night-time analysis. For the city of Basel 32 high-quality Landsat 8 (L8) scenes are available since 2013, enabling comprehensive statistical analysis. Therefore, land surface temperature (LST) is calculated using L8 thermal infrared (TIR) imagery (stray light corrected) applying improved emissivity and atmospheric corrections. The data are combined with a land use/land cover (LULC) map and evaluated using administrative residential units. The observed dependence of LST on LULC is analyzed using a thermal unmixing approach based on a multiple linear regression (MLR) model, which allows for quantifying the gradual influence of different LULC types on the LST precisely. Seasonal variations due to different solar irradiance and vegetation cover indicate a higher dependence of LST on the LULC during the warmer summer months and an increasing influence of the topography and albedo during the colder seasons. Furthermore, the MLR analysis allows creating predicted LST images, which can be used to fill data gaps like in SLC-off Landsat 7 ETM+ data.</p>", "keywords": ["multiple linear regression", "Landsat 8", "land use/land cover", "Science", "atmospheric corrections", "Q", "0211 other engineering and technologies", "land surface temperature", "02 engineering and technology", "15. Life on land", "01 natural sciences", "LST analysis", "13. Climate action", "11. Sustainability", "land surface temperature; thermal infrared data; LST analysis; atmospheric corrections; land use/land cover; multiple linear regression; urban; Landsat 8", "thermal infrared data", "urban", "0105 earth and related environmental sciences"]}, "links": [{"href": "http://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/9/7/684/pdf"}, {"href": "https://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/9/7/684/pdf"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.3390/rs9070684"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Remote%20Sensing", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.3390/rs9070684", "name": "item", "description": "10.3390/rs9070684", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.3390/rs9070684"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2017-07-04T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.24057/2071-9388-2019-10", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-07-25T16:20:36Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2019-11-26", "title": "Simultaneous assessment of the summer urban heat island in Moscow megacity based on in situ observations, thermal satellite images and mesoscale modeling", "description": "<p>This study compares three popular approaches to quantify the urban heat island (UHI) effect in Moscow megacity in a summer season (June-August 2015). The first approach uses the measurements of the near-surface air temperature obtained from weather stations, the second is based on remote sensing from thermal imagery of MODIS satellites, and the third is based on the numerical simulations with the mesoscale atmospheric model COSMO-CLM coupled with the urban canopy scheme TERRA_URB. The first approach allows studying the canopy-layer UHI (CLUHI, or anomaly of a near- surface air temperature), while the second allows studying the surface UHI (SUHI, or anomaly of a land surface temperature), and both types of the UHI could be simulated by the atmospheric model. These approaches were compared in the daytime, evening and nighttime conditions. The results of the study highlight a substantial difference between the SUHI and CLUHI in terms of the diurnal variation and spatial structure. The strongest differences are found at the daytime, at which the SUHI reaches the maximal intensity (up to 10\uffc2\uffb0\uffd0\uffa1) whereas the CLUHI reaches the minimum intensity (1.5\uffc2\uffb0\uffd0\uffa1). However, there is a stronger consistency between CLUHU and SUHI at night, when their intensities converge to 5\uffe2\uff80\uff936\uffc2\uffb0\uffd0\uffa1. In addition, the nighttime CLUHI and SUHI have similar monocentric spatial structure with a temperature maximum in the city center. The presented findings should be taken into account when interpreting and comparing the results of UHI studies, based on the different approaches. The mesoscale model reproduces the CLUHI-SUHI relationships and provides good agreement with in situ observations on the CLUHI spatiotemporal variations (with near-zero biases for daytime and nighttime CLUHI intensity and correlation coefficients more than 0.8 for CLUHI spatial patterns). However, the agreement of the simulated SUHI with the remote sensing data is lower than agreement of the simulated CLUHI with in situ measurements. Specifically, the model tends to overestimate the daytime SUHI intensity. These results indicate a need for further in-depth investigation of the model behavior and SUHI\uffe2\uff80\uff93CLUHI relationships in general.</p>", "keywords": ["modis", "Geography (General)", "COSMO", "suhi", "0207 environmental engineering", "uhi", "land surface temperature", "UHI", "urban heat island", "moscow", "02 engineering and technology", "Moscow", "01 natural sciences", "thermal satellite images", "remote sensing", "MODIS", "13. Climate action", "Earth and Environmental Sciences", "SUHI", "cosmo", "urban climate", "11. Sustainability", "G1-922", "mesoscale modelling", "0105 earth and related environmental sciences"], "contacts": [{"organization": "Varentsov, Mikhail I., Grishchenko, Mikhail Y., Wouters, Hendrik,", "roles": ["creator"]}]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.24057/2071-9388-2019-10"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/GEOGRAPHY%2C%20ENVIRONMENT%2C%20SUSTAINABILITY", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.24057/2071-9388-2019-10", "name": "item", "description": "10.24057/2071-9388-2019-10", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.24057/2071-9388-2019-10"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2019-12-31T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.3389/frwa.2022.981745", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-07-25T16:20:51Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2022-09-16", "title": "Perspective on Satellite-Based Land Data Assimilation to Estimate Water Cycle Components in an Era of Advanced Data Availability and Model Sophistication", "description": "<p>The beginning of the 21st century is marked by a rapid growth of land surface satellite data and model sophistication. This offers new opportunities to estimate multiple components of the water cycle via satellite-based land data assimilation (DA) across multiple scales. By resolving more processes in land surface models and by coupling the land, the atmosphere, and other Earth system compartments, the observed information can be propagated to constrain additional unobserved variables. Furthermore, access to more satellite observations enables the direct constraint of more and more components of the water cycle that are of interest to end users. However, the finer level of detail in models and data is also often accompanied by an increase in dimensions, with more state variables, parameters, or boundary conditions to estimate, and more observations to assimilate. This requires advanced DA methods and efficient solutions. One solution is to target specific observations for assimilation based on a sensitivity study or coupling strength analysis, because not all observations are equally effective in improving subsequent forecasts of hydrological variables, weather, agricultural production, or hazards through DA. This paper offers a perspective on current and future land DA development, and suggestions to optimally exploit advances in observing and modeling systems.</p>", "keywords": ["[SDE] Environmental Sciences", "Land surface modeling", "VEGETATION OPTICAL DEPTH", "IMPACT", "info:eu-repo/classification/ddc/333.7", "snow", "Environmental technology. Sanitary engineering", "01 natural sciences", "land surface modeling", "RETRIEVALS", "targeted observations", "vegetation", "Snow", "Targeted observations", "SNOW DEPTH", "SOIL-MOISTURE ASSIMILATION", "data assimilation", "TD1-1066", "0105 earth and related environmental sciences", "GRACE DATA ASSIMILATION", "EQUIVALENT", "microwave remote sensing", "Vegetation", "LDAS-MONDE", "BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE OBSERVATIONS", "15. Life on land", "Microwave remote sensing", "13. Climate action", "Earth and Environmental Sciences", "SIMULATION", "Data assimilation", "data assimilation", " soil moisture", " snow", " vegetation", " microwave remote sensing", " land surface modeling", " targeted observation", "Soil moisture", "soil moisture"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://cris.unibo.it/bitstream/11585/894502/2/frwa-04-981745%20%282%29.pdf"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.3389/frwa.2022.981745"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Frontiers%20in%20Water", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.3389/frwa.2022.981745", "name": "item", "description": "10.3389/frwa.2022.981745", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.3389/frwa.2022.981745"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2022-09-16T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.3390/rs11091138", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-07-25T16:21:07Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2019-05-13", "title": "Advances in the Remote Sensing of Terrestrial Evaporation", "description": "<p>Characterizing the terrestrial carbon, water, and energy cycles depends strongly on a capacity to accurately reproduce the spatial and temporal dynamics of land surface evaporation. For this, and many other reasons, monitoring terrestrial evaporation across multiple space and time scales has been an area of focused research for a number of decades. Much of this activity has been supported by developments in satellite remote sensing, which have been leveraged to deliver new process insights, model development and methodological improvements. In this Special Issue, published contributions explored a range of research topics directed towards the enhanced estimation of terrestrial evaporation. Here we summarize these cutting-edge efforts and provide an overview of some of the state-of-the-art approaches for retrieving this key variable. Some perspectives on outstanding challenges, issues, and opportunities are also presented.</p>", "keywords": ["Atmospheric sciences", "CubeSats", "Life on Land", "Classical Physics", "Science", "0207 environmental engineering", "02 engineering and technology", "high-resolution", "01 natural sciences", "Physical Geography and Environmental Geoscience", "Article", "evaporation", "land surface modeling", "remote sensing", "Engineering", "novel sensing", "Physical geography and environmental geoscience", "0105 earth and related environmental sciences", "Earth observation", "Q", "Geomatic engineering", "15. Life on land", "Geomatic Engineering", "land surface flux", "13. Climate action", "cubesats"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/11/9/1138/pdf"}, {"href": "https://escholarship.org/content/qt1sh5v7hp/qt1sh5v7hp.pdf"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.3390/rs11091138"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Remote%20Sensing", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.3390/rs11091138", "name": "item", "description": "10.3390/rs11091138", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.3390/rs11091138"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2019-05-13T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.48620/90780", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-07-25T16:21:27Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2024-10-23", "title": "Warming of Northern Peatlands Increases the Global Temperature Overshoot Challenge", "description": "Meeting the Paris Agreement's temperature goals requires limiting future carbon emissions, yet current policies make temporarily overshooting the 1.5\u00b0C target likely. The potential climate feedback from destabilizing peatlands, storing large amounts of carbon, remains poorly quantified. Using the reduced-complexity Earth System Model OSCAR with an integrated peat carbon module, we found that across various overshoot pathways that temporarily exceed 1.5\u00b0C-2.5\u00b0C, northern peatlands exhibit net positive feedback, amplifying the overshoot challenge. Warming increases peatlands' net carbon uptake, but this is largely offset by higher methane emissions. We estimated that for each 1\u00b0C increase in peak warming, the positive feedback from peatlands decreases the remaining carbon budget by 37 GtCO2 (22-48 GtCO2). If the 1.5\u00b0C temperature target is exceeded, peatlands would increase carbon removal requirement by about 40 GtCO2 (16-60 GtCO2) (8.6%). Our findings highlight the importance of properly accounting for northern peatlands for estimating climate feedbacks, especially under overshoot scenarios.", "keywords": ["[SDU.STU.CL] Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Climatology", "climate change", "northern peatlands", "carbon", "greenhouse gases", "land surface model", "reduced-complexity earth system model", "FairCarboN", "temperature feedback", "[SDU.ENVI] Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Continental interfaces", " environment", "Article", "overshoot"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://oceanrep.geomar.de/id/eprint/62739/1/1-s2.0-S2590332225001794-main.pdf"}, {"href": "https://pure.iiasa.ac.at/id/eprint/20730/1/1-s2.0-S2590332225001794-main.pdf"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.48620/90780"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/One%20Earth", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.48620/90780", "name": "item", "description": "10.48620/90780", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.48620/90780"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2024-10-23T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.5281/zenodo.10907096", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"license": "unspecified", "updated": "2026-07-25T16:22:11Z", "type": "Dataset", "title": "Global soil type dataset for WRF-ARW model, based on HWSD version 2", "description": "Global soil type dataset, based on HWSD ('Harmonized World Soil Database', version 2.0), suitable for meteorological model WRF-ARW.    spatial resolution: 30 arc seconds by 30 arc seconds (about 1km)  original data (HWSD 2.0)    https://s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/data.gaezdev.aws.fao.org/HWSD/HWSD2_RASTER.zip  https://s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/data.gaezdev.aws.fao.org/HWSD/HWSD2_DB.zip  https://gaez.fao.org/pages/hwsd  documentation: Nachtergaele, Freddy, et al. 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Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2023. https://www.fao.org/3/cc3823en/cc3823en.pdf    the original 7 soil layers (0\u201320 cm, 20\u201340 cm, 40\u201360 cm, 60\u201380 cm, 80\u2013100 cm, 100\u2013150 cm and 150\u2013200 cm) have been remapped to the 2 layers required by WRF (topsoil 0-30 cm, botsoil 30-200 cm)  the original Soil Mapping Units (SMU) have been remapped to the 16 soil categories used by WRF:    the depth-weighted averages of the content of clay, silt and sand lead to 12 texture-based categories (Sand, Loamy sand, Sandy loam, Silt loam, Silt, Loam, Sandy clay loam, Silty clay loam, Clay loam, Sandy clay, Silty clay, Clay), as defined by USDA;  category 'Organic material' is assigned where the average content of organic carbon exceeds the threshold of 25%;  where the content of clay, silt and sand is not defined, HWSD special categories are mapped to the WRF last 3 categories, as follows:    'Water bodies' to 'Water',\u00a0  'Rock outcrops' and 'Rocky sublayers' to 'Bedrock',\u00a0  'Land ice and glaciers', 'Dunes/shifting sands', 'Salt flats', and 'Other' to 'Other'       The dataset is provided in three ways:    two global files (SoilType_depth<T>to<B>cm.tif), one for each layer; format is GeoTIFF, compatible with\u00a0convert_geotiff, a commandline utility for converting data from GeoTIFF to geogrid format used by WRF;  16 tiles, 8 for each layer, each covering 90 degrees by 90 degrees (SoilType_depth<T>to<B>cm_lon<W>to<E>deg_lat<S>to<N>deg.tif); format is GeoTIFF;  two compressed folders, hwsd_toplayer.zip and hwsd_bottomlayer.zip, each including 648 tiles in binary format and an 'index' ASCII file, following the Geogrid data format and naming convention, as described here.   Soil categories are coded as follows     code category   1 sand   2 loamy sand   3 sandy loam   4 silt loam   5 silt   6 loam   7 sandy clay loam   8 silty clay loam   9 clay loam   10 sandy clay   11 silty clay   12 clay   13 organic material   14 water   15 bedrock   16 other", "keywords": ["Soil sciences", "Meteorology", "soil type", "WRF", "land surface model", "soil classification", "HWSD"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10907096"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.5281/zenodo.10907096", "name": "item", "description": "10.5281/zenodo.10907096", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.5281/zenodo.10907096"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2024-03-27T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.5281/zenodo.8092629", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-07-25T16:23:48Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2022-06-15", "title": "Comparison of Methods for Reconstructing MODIS Land Surface Temperature under Cloudy Conditions", "description": "<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><article><p>Land surface temperature (LST) is a vital parameter associated with the land\u2013atmosphere interface. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) LST product can provide precise LST with high time resolution, and is widely applied in various remote sensing temperature research. However, due to its inability to penetrate the cloud and fog, its quality is not able to meet the requirements of actual research. Hence, obtaining continuous and cloudless MODIS LST datasets remains challenging for researchers. The critical point is to reconstruct missing pixels. To compare the performance of different methods, first, three kinds of methods were used to reconstruct the missing pixels, namely, temporal, spatial, and spatiotemporal methods. The predicted values using these methods were validated by the automatic weather system data (AWS) in the Heihe river basin of China. The results demonstrated that, compared with other methods, linear temporal interpolation using Aqua data had the best performance in MODIS LST reconstruction in the Heihe river basin, with an RMSE of 7.13 K and an R2 of 0.82, and the NSE and PBias were 0.78 and \u22120.76%, respectively. Furthermore, the interpolation method was improved using adaptive windows and robust regression. First, the international Geosphere\u2013Biosphere Program (IGBP) classification was employed to distinguish the different land surface types. Then, the invalid LST values were reconstructed using adjacent days\u2019 effective LST values combined with a robust regression. Finally, a mean filter was applied to eliminate outliers. The overall results combined with ERA5 data were validated by AWS, with an RMSE of 6.96 K and an R2 of 0.79 and the NSE and PBias were 0.77 and \u22120.20%, respectively. The validation demonstrated that the scheme proposed in this paper is able to accurately reconstruct the missing values and improve the accuracy of the interpolation method to a certain extent when reconstructing MODIS LST.</p></article>", "keywords": ["Technology", "land surface temperature (LST)", "reconstruction", "land surface temperature (LST); remote sensing; interpolation; reconstruction; MODIS", "QH301-705.5", "T", "Physics", "QC1-999", "Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General)", "01 natural sciences", "interpolation", "6. Clean water", "Chemistry", "remote sensing", "MODIS", "13. Climate action", "TA1-2040", "Biology (General)", "QD1-999", "0105 earth and related environmental sciences"]}, "links": [{"href": "http://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/12/12/6068/pdf"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8092629"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Applied%20Sciences", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.5281/zenodo.8092629", "name": "item", "description": "10.5281/zenodo.8092629", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.5281/zenodo.8092629"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2022-06-15T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "323285e6daa0eef692bb66c188779b9f", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-07-25T16:26:26Z", "type": "Other", "title": "Perspective on Satellite-Based Land Data Assimilation to Estimate Water Cycle Components in an Era of Advanced Data Availability and Model Sophistication", "description": "Provisionally accepted: The final, formatted version of the article will be published soon. Project Co-ordinators: Dr. Jose Alfonso G\u00f3mez Calero (Instituto de Agricultura Sostenible (IAS-CISC), Dr. Weifeng Xu (Fujian Agriculture and Forest University, FAFU). -- Trabajo desarrollado bajo la financiaci\u00f3n del proyecto \u201cSoil Hydrology research platform underpinning innovation to manage water scarcity in European and Chinese cropping Systems\u201d (773903), coordinado por Jos\u00e9 Alfonso G\u00f3mez Calero, investigador del Instituto de Agricultura Sostenible (IAS). The beginning of the 21st century is marked by a rapid growth of land surface satellite data and model sophistication. This offers new opportunities to estimate multiple components of the water cycle via satellite-based land data assimilation (DA) across multiple scales. By resolving more processes in land surface models and by coupling the land, the atmosphere, and other Earth system compartments, the observed information can be propagated to constrain additional unobserved variables. Furthermore, access to more satellite observations enables the direct constraint of more and more components of the water cycle that are of interest to end users. However, the finer level of detail in models and data is also often accompanied by an increase in dimensions, with more state variables, parameters, or boundary conditions to estimate, and more observations to assimilate. This requires advanced DA methods and efficient solutions. One solution is to target specific observations for assimilation based on a sensitivity study or coupling strength analysis, because not all observations are equally effective in improving subsequent forecasts of hydrological variables, weather, agricultural production, or hazards through DA. This paper offers a perspective on current and future land DA development, and suggestions to optimally exploit advances in observing and modeling systems. This research is supported by Belspo EODAHR (SR/00/376), the European Commission, Horizon 2020 SHui (773903), FWO CONSOLIDATION (G0A7320N), ESA 4D-MED (4000136272/21/I-EF) and KU Leuven C1 (C14/21/057). Peer reviewed", "keywords": ["2. Zero hunger", "Microwave remote sensing", "Land surface modeling", "Vegetation", "13. Climate action", "Snow", "Targeted observations", "Data assimilation", "Soil moisture", "15. Life on land"], "contacts": [{"organization": "De Lannoy, Gabrielle, Bechtold, Michel, Albergel, Cl\u00e9ment, Brocca, Luca, Calvet, Jean-Christophe, Carrassi, Alberto, Crow, Wade T., De Rosnay, Patricia, Durand, Michael, Forman, Bart, Geppert, Gernot, Girotto, Manuela, Franssen, Harrie-Jan Hendricks, Jonas, Tobias, Kumar, Sujay V., Lievens, Hans, Lu, Yang, Massari, Christian, Pauwels, Valentjn, Reichle, Rolf, Steele-Dunne, Susan,", "roles": ["creator"]}]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/323285e6daa0eef692bb66c188779b9f"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "323285e6daa0eef692bb66c188779b9f", "name": "item", "description": "323285e6daa0eef692bb66c188779b9f", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/323285e6daa0eef692bb66c188779b9f"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2022-01-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "2790511636", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-07-25T16:25:56Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2018-03-20", "title": "Calibrating an evapotranspiration model using radiometric surface temperature, vegetation cover fraction and near-surface soil moisture data", "description": "An accurate representation of the partitioning between soil evaporation and plant transpiration is an asset for modeling crop evapotranspiration (ET) along the agricultural season. The Two-Surface energy Balance (TSEB) model operates the ET partitioning by using the land surface temperature (LST), vegetation cover fraction (fc), and the Priestley Taylor (PT) assumption that relates transpiration to net radiation via a fixed PT coefficient (\u03b1PT). To help constrain the evaporation/transpiration partition of TSEB, a new model (named TSEB-SM) is developed by using, in addition to LST and fc data, the near-surface soil moisture (SM) as an extra constraint on soil evaporation. An innovative calibration procedure is proposed to retrieve three key parameters: \u03b1PT and the parameters (arss and brss) of a soil resistance formulation. Specifically, arss and brss are retrieved at the seasonal time scale from SM and LST data with fc\u202f \u202f0.5. The new ET model named TSEB-SM is tested over 1 flood- and 2 drip-irrigated wheat fields using in situ data collected during two field experiments in 2002\u20132003 and 2016\u20132017. The calibration algorithm is found to be remarkably stable as \u03b1PT, arss and brss parameters converge rapidly in few (2\u20133) iterations. Retrieved values of \u03b1PT, arss and brss are in the range 0.0\u20131.4, 5.7\u20139.5, and 1.4\u20136.9, respectively. Calibrated daily \u03b1PT mainly follows the phenology of winter wheat crop with a maximum value coincident with the full development of green biomass and a minimum value reached at harvest. The temporal variations of \u03b1PT before senescence are attributed to the dynamics of both root-zone soil moisture. Moreover, the overall (for the three sites) root mean square difference between the ET simulated by TSEB-SM and eddy-covariance measurements is 67\u202fW\u202fm\u22122 (24% relative error), compared to 108\u202fW\u202fm\u22122 (38% relative error) for the original version of TSEB using default parameterization (\u03b1PT\u202f=\u202f1.26). Such a calibration strategy has great potential for applications at multiple scales using remote sensing data including thermal-derived LST, solar reflectance-derived fc and microwave-derived SM.", "keywords": ["Priestley-taylor coefficient", "2. Zero hunger", "550", "TSEB modifid", "[SDE.IE]Environmental Sciences/Environmental Engineering", "0207 environmental engineering", "02 engineering and technology", "Vegetation cover fraction", "15. 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This offers new opportunities to estimate multiple components of the water cycle via satellite-based land data assimilation (DA) across multiple scales. By resolving more processes in land surface models and by coupling the land, the atmosphere, and other Earth system compartments, the observed information can be propagated to constrain additional unobserved variables. Furthermore, access to more satellite observations enables the direct constraint of more and more components of the water cycle that are of interest to end users. However, the finer level of detail in models and data is also often accompanied by an increase in dimensions, with more state variables, parameters, or boundary conditions to estimate, and more observations to assimilate. This requires advanced DA methods and efficient solutions. One solution is to target specific observations for assimilation based on a sensitivity study or coupling strength analysis, because not all observations are equally effective in improving subsequent forecasts of hydrological variables, weather, agricultural production, or hazards through DA. This paper offers a perspective on current and future land DA development, and suggestions to optimally exploit advances in observing and modeling systems.</p", "keywords": ["[SDE] Environmental Sciences", "Land surface modeling", "VEGETATION OPTICAL DEPTH", "info:eu-repo/classification/ddc/333.7", "IMPACT", "snow", "Environmental technology. Sanitary engineering", "01 natural sciences", "land surface modeling", "RETRIEVALS", "targeted observations", "vegetation", "Snow", "Targeted observations", "SNOW DEPTH", "SOIL-MOISTURE ASSIMILATION", "data assimilation", "TD1-1066", "0105 earth and related environmental sciences", "Science & Technology", "GRACE DATA ASSIMILATION", "EQUIVALENT", "3707 Hydrology", "microwave remote sensing", "Vegetation", "LDAS-MONDE", "BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE OBSERVATIONS", "15. Life on land", "Microwave remote sensing", "13. 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Extreme surface temperature hotspots are presently identified using satellite observations or deduced from complex Earth system models. We introduce a simple, yet physically based analytical approach that incorporates salient land characteristics and atmospheric conditions to globally identify locations of extreme surface temperatures and their upper bounds. We then provide a predictive tool for delineating the spatial extent of land hotspots at the limits to biological adaptability. The model is in good agreement with satellite observations showing that temperature hotspots are associated with high radiation and low wind speed and occur primarily in Middle East and North Africa, with maximum temperatures exceeding 85\uffc2\uffb0C during the study period from 2005 to 2020. We observed an increasing trend in maximum surface temperatures at a rate of 0.17\uffc2\uffb0C/decade. The model allows quantifying how upper bounds of extreme temperatures can increase in a warming climate in the future for which we do not have satellite observations and offers new insights on potential impacts of future warming on limits to plant growth and biological adaptability.</p", "keywords": ["0301 basic medicine", "Ecology", "LST hotspots", "maximum land surface temperature (LST)", "15. Life on land", "01 natural sciences", "Environmental sciences", "atmospheric conditions", "03 medical and health sciences", "ddc:551.5", "land conditions", "13. Climate action", "GE1-350", "QH540-549.5", "0105 earth and related environmental sciences"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/20.500.11850/631341"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Earth%27s%20Future", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "20.500.11850/631341", "name": "item", "description": "20.500.11850/631341", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/20.500.11850/631341"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2023-09-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "21.11116/0000-000A-E334-B", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-07-25T16:25:38Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2022-08-17", "title": "Lowering water table reduces carbon sink strength and carbon stocks in northern peatlands", "description": "Abstract<p>Peatlands at high latitudes have accumulated &gt;400\uffe2\uff80\uff89Pg carbon (C) because saturated soil and cold temperatures suppress C decomposition. This substantial amount of C in Arctic and Boreal peatlands is potentially subject to increased decomposition if the water table (WT) decreases due to climate change, including permafrost thaw\uffe2\uff80\uff90related drying. Here, we optimize a version of the Organizing Carbon and Hydrology In Dynamic Ecosystems model (ORCHIDEE\uffe2\uff80\uff90PCH4) using site\uffe2\uff80\uff90specific observations to investigate changes in CO2 and CH4 fluxes as well as C stock responses to an experimentally manipulated decrease of WT at six northern peatlands. The unmanipulated control peatlands, with the WT &lt;20\uffe2\uff80\uff89cm on average (seasonal max up to 45\uffe2\uff80\uff89cm) below the surface, currently act as C sinks in most years (58\uffe2\uff80\uff89\uffc2\uffb1\uffe2\uff80\uff8934\uffe2\uff80\uff89g C\uffe2\uff80\uff89m\uffe2\uff88\uff922\uffc2\uffa0year\uffe2\uff88\uff921; including 6\uffe2\uff80\uff89\uffc2\uffb1\uffe2\uff80\uff897\uffe2\uff80\uff89g C\uffe2\uff80\uff93CH4 m\uffe2\uff88\uff922\uffc2\uffa0year\uffe2\uff88\uff921 emission). We found, however, that lowering the WT by 10\uffe2\uff80\uff89cm reduced the CO2 sink by 13\uffe2\uff80\uff89\uffc2\uffb1\uffe2\uff80\uff8915\uffe2\uff80\uff89g\uffe2\uff80\uff89C\uffe2\uff80\uff89m\uffe2\uff88\uff922\uffc2\uffa0year\uffe2\uff88\uff921 and decreased CH4 emission by 4\uffe2\uff80\uff89\uffc2\uffb1\uffe2\uff80\uff894\uffe2\uff80\uff89g CH4 m\uffe2\uff88\uff922\uffc2\uffa0year\uffe2\uff88\uff921, thus accumulating less C over 100\uffe2\uff80\uff89years (0.2\uffe2\uff80\uff89\uffc2\uffb1\uffe2\uff80\uff890.2\uffe2\uff80\uff89kg\uffe2\uff80\uff89C\uffe2\uff80\uff89m\uffe2\uff88\uff922). Yet, the reduced emission of CH4, which has a larger greenhouse warming potential, resulted in a net decrease in greenhouse gas balance by 310\uffe2\uff80\uff89\uffc2\uffb1\uffe2\uff80\uff89360\uffe2\uff80\uff89g\uffe2\uff80\uff89CO2\uffe2\uff80\uff90eq\uffc2\uffa0m\uffe2\uff88\uff922\uffc2\uffa0year\uffe2\uff88\uff921. Peatlands with the initial WT close to the soil surface were more vulnerable to C loss: Non\uffe2\uff80\uff90permafrost peatlands lost &gt;2\uffe2\uff80\uff89kg\uffe2\uff80\uff89C\uffe2\uff80\uff89m\uffe2\uff88\uff922 over 100\uffe2\uff80\uff89years when WT is lowered by 50\uffe2\uff80\uff89cm, while permafrost peatlands temporally switched from C sinks to sources. These results highlight that reductions in C storage capacity in response to drying of northern peatlands are offset in part by reduced CH4 emissions, thus slightly reducing the positive carbon climate feedbacks of peatlands under a warmer and drier future climate scenario.</p", "keywords": ["570", "Carbon Sequestration", "permafrost thaw", "land surface model", "551", "01 natural sciences", "manipulation experiment", "Greenhouse Gases", "Soil", "Groundwater", "Research Articles", "Ecosystem", "0105 earth and related environmental sciences", "[SDU.OCEAN]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Ocean", "Atmosphere", "[SDU.OCEAN] Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Ocean", " Atmosphere", "carbon stock", "high latitude", "Carbon Dioxide", "15. Life on land", "[SDU.ENVI] Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Continental interfaces", " environment", "Carbon", "carbon flux", "13. 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To fill the gap, this study proposes a physically-based method to normalize LST data for topographic - namely illumination and elevation - effects over mountainous areas. Both topographic effects are first quantified by inverting a dual-source soil/vegetation energy balance (EB) model forced by 1) the instantaneous solar radiation simulated by a 3D radiative transfer model named DART (Discrete Anisotropic Radiative Transfer) that uses a digital elevation model (DEM), 2) a satellite-derived vegetation index, and 3) local meteorological (air temperature, air relative humidity and wind speed) data available at a given location. The satellite LST is then normalized for topography by simulating the LST using both pixel- and image-scale DART solar radiation and elevation data. The approach is tested on three ASTER (Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer) overpass dates over a steep-sided 6\u00a0km by 6\u00a0km area in the Atlas Mountain in Morocco. The mean correlation coefficient and root mean square difference (RMSD) between EB-simulated and ASTER LST is 0.80 and 3\u00a0\u00b0C, respectively. Moreover, the EB-based method is found to be more accurate than a more classical approach based on a multi-linear regression with DART solar radiation and elevation data. The EB-simulated LST is also evaluated against an extensive ground dataset of 135 autonomous 1-cm depth temperature sensors deployed over the study area. While the mean RMSD between 90\u00a0m resolution ASTER LST and localized ibutton measurements is 6.1\u00a0\u00b0C, the RMSD between EB-simulated LST and ibutton soil temperature is 5.4 and 5.3\u00a0\u00b0C for a DEM at 90\u00a0m and 8\u00a0m resolution, respectively. The proposed topographic normalization is self-calibrated from (LST, DEM, vegetation index and in situ meteorological data) data available over large extents. 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FAO-56 is one of the widely used formulations to estimate the actual crop evapotranspiration (ET c act) due to its operational nature and since it represents a reasonable compromise between simplicity and accuracy. In this vein, the objective of this paper was to examine the possibility of improving ET c act estimates through remote sensing data assimilation. For this purpose, remotely sensed soil moisture (SM) and Land surface temperature (LST) data were simultaneously assimilated into FAO-dualK c. Surface SM observations were assimilated into the soil evaporation (E s) component through the soil evaporation coefficient, and LST data were assimilated into the actual crop transpiration (T c act) component through the crop stress coefficient. The LST data were used to estimate the water stress coefficient (K s) as a proxy of LST (LST proxy). The FAO-Ks was corrected by assimilating LST proxy derived from Landsat data based on the variances of predicted errors on K s estimates from FAO-56 model and thermal-derived K s. The proposed approach was tested over a semi-arid area in Morocco using first, in situ data collected during 2002-2003 and 2015-2016 wheat growth seasons over two different fields and then, remotely sensed data derived from disaggregated Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) SM and Landsat-LST sensors were used. Assimilating SM data leads to an improvement of the ET c act model prediction: the root mean square error (RMSE) decreased from 0.98 to 0.65 mm/day compared to the classical FAO-dualK c using in situ SM. Moreover, assimilating both in situ SM and LST data provided more accurate results with a RMSE error of 0.55 mm/day. By using SMAP-based SM and Landsat-LST, results also improved in comparison with standard FAO and reached a RMSE of 0.73 mm/day against eddy-covariance ET c act measurements.", "keywords": ["0106 biological sciences", "2. Zero hunger", "Evapotranspiration", "550", "Evapotranspiration Data assimilation FAO-dualK c Soil moisture Land surface temperature", "0207 environmental engineering", "02 engineering and technology", "15. Life on land", "01 natural sciences", "[SDU.ENVI] Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Continental interfaces", " environment", "6. Clean water", "FAO-dualK(c)", "13. 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Project Co-ordinators: Dr. Jose Alfonso G\u00f3mez Calero (Instituto de Agricultura Sostenible (IAS-CISC), Dr. Weifeng Xu (Fujian Agriculture and Forest University, FAFU). -- Trabajo desarrollado bajo la financiaci\u00f3n del proyecto \u201cSoil Hydrology research platform underpinning innovation to manage water scarcity in European and Chinese cropping Systems\u201d (773903), coordinado por Jos\u00e9 Alfonso G\u00f3mez Calero, investigador del Instituto de Agricultura Sostenible (IAS). The beginning of the 21st century is marked by a rapid growth of land surface satellite data and model sophistication. This offers new opportunities to estimate multiple components of the water cycle via satellite-based land data assimilation (DA) across multiple scales. By resolving more processes in land surface models and by coupling the land, the atmosphere, and other Earth system compartments, the observed information can be propagated to constrain additional unobserved variables. Furthermore, access to more satellite observations enables the direct constraint of more and more components of the water cycle that are of interest to end users. However, the finer level of detail in models and data is also often accompanied by an increase in dimensions, with more state variables, parameters, or boundary conditions to estimate, and more observations to assimilate. This requires advanced DA methods and efficient solutions. One solution is to target specific observations for assimilation based on a sensitivity study or coupling strength analysis, because not all observations are equally effective in improving subsequent forecasts of hydrological variables, weather, agricultural production, or hazards through DA. This paper offers a perspective on current and future land DA development, and suggestions to optimally exploit advances in observing and modeling systems. 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