Publicly available soil moisture datasets: an overview and the UB-SMDC portal
2026
Mohseni, Farzane, Haunert, Jan-Henrik
Longwave Radiation, Shortwave Radiation, Soil Heat Budget, Soil Heat Budget, Soil Temperature, Soil Temperature, Soil Infiltration, Soil Infiltration, Soil Moisture/Water Content , Surface Soil Moisture, Root Zone Soil Moisture, Soil Moisture/Water Content , Evaporation, Surface Water, Runoff Rate, Average Flow, Average Flow, Precipitation , Snow/Ice , Snow Depth , Snow Melt , Snow/Ice Temperature, Leaf Area Index (LAI), Leaf Area Index (LAI) , Total Runoff
MERRA-2 tavg1_2d_lnd_Nx: 2d,1-Hourly,Time-Averaged,Single-Level,Assimilation,Land Surface Diagnostics 0.625 x 0.5 degree V5.12.4 (M2T1NXLND) MERRA-2 tavgM_2d_lnd_Nx: 2d,Monthly mean,Time-Averaged,Single-Level,Assimilation,Land Surface Diagnostics 0.625 x 0.5 degree V5.12.4 (M2TMNXLND) MERRA-2 tavgU_2d_lnd_Nx: 2d,diurnal,Time-Averaged,Single-Level,Assimilation,Land Surface Diagnostics 0.625 x 0.5 degree V5.12.4 (M2TUNXLND)
Water availability shapes temporal patterns of extrafloral nectar secretion and ant visitation to a Neotropical legume
2026
Melati, B., Souza, C., Nogueira, A., Leal, L. C.
Surface Pressure, Heat Flux, Longwave Radiation, Shortwave Radiation, Surface Temperature , Humidity , Evapotranspiration , Surface Winds , Rain , Precipitation Rate , Snow, Soil Moisture/Water Content , Soil Temperature, Land Surface Temperature , Snow Water Equivalent , Runoff , Ground Water , Tropopause, Air Temperature, Upper Air Temperature, Total Precipitable Water, Water Vapor, Cloud Height, Cloud Top Pressure, Cloud Top Temperature, Cloud Vertical Distribution, Emissivity, Sea Surface Temperature , Skin Temperature, Carbon Monoxide , Geopotential Height, Water Vapor Profiles, Cloud Liquid Water/Ice, Outgoing Longwave Radiation, Methane, Atmospheric Ozone, Skin Temperature, Specific Humidity, Snow/Ice , Evaporation, Latent Heat Flux, Latent Heat Flux, Sensible Heat Flux, Diffusion, Surface Winds , Wind Speed , U/V Wind Components, Wind Stress, Wind Stress, Surface Roughness, Planetary Boundary Layer Height, Ice Fraction
Informing Robust Functional Relationship Benchmarks: An Evaluation of the Temperature Sensitivity of Ecosystem Respiration Across the ArcticBoreal Region
2026
Poe, Jeralyn, Huntzinger, Deborah, Riley, William J., Wells, Jon M., Schuur, Edward A. G., Schwalm, Christopher, Berner, Logan T., Rodenhizer, Heidi, Bouskill, Nicholas J., Brovkin, Victor, Burke, Eleanor J., Ciais, Philippe, Georgievski, Goran, Gustafson, Adrian, Lawrence, David M., MacDougall, Andrew H., Mekonnen, Zelalem A., Melton, Joe R., Meyer, Gesa, Pongracz, Alexandra, Qiu, Chunjing, Sulman, Benjamin N., Swenson, Sean C., Tao, Jing, Warlind, David, Xi, Yi, Yuan, Fengming, Zhu, Qing, Schadel, Christina
Longwave Radiation, Shortwave Radiation, Soil Heat Budget, Soil Heat Budget, Soil Temperature, Soil Temperature, Soil Infiltration, Soil Infiltration, Soil Moisture/Water Content , Surface Soil Moisture, Root Zone Soil Moisture, Soil Moisture/Water Content , Evaporation, Surface Water, Runoff Rate, Average Flow, Average Flow, Precipitation , Snow/Ice , Snow Depth , Snow Melt , Snow/Ice Temperature, Leaf Area Index (LAI), Leaf Area Index (LAI)
Interpretable Machine Learning for Revealing Main and Interactive
2026
Bai, Yang, Chen, Xueyang, Li, Zhengqiang, Zhou, Hao, Li, Ruobin, Han, Yinghui
Longwave Radiation, Shortwave Radiation, Soil Heat Budget, Soil Heat Budget, Soil Temperature, Soil Temperature, Soil Infiltration, Soil Infiltration, Soil Moisture/Water Content , Surface Soil Moisture, Root Zone Soil Moisture, Soil Moisture/Water Content , Evaporation, Surface Water, Runoff Rate, Average Flow, Average Flow, Precipitation , Snow/Ice , Snow Depth , Snow Melt , Snow/Ice Temperature, Leaf Area Index (LAI), Leaf Area Index (LAI) , Vegetation Index , Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI)
Large Overestimation of Projected Western US Wildfire Burned Forest Area
2026
Cheng, Yu, McColl, Kaighin A., Mickley, Loretta J., Feng, Xu
Longwave Radiation, Shortwave Radiation, Soil Heat Budget, Soil Heat Budget, Soil Temperature, Soil Temperature, Soil Infiltration, Soil Infiltration, Soil Moisture/Water Content , Surface Soil Moisture, Root Zone Soil Moisture, Soil Moisture/Water Content , Evaporation, Surface Water, Runoff Rate, Average Flow, Average Flow, Precipitation , Snow/Ice , Snow Depth , Snow Melt , Snow/Ice Temperature, Leaf Area Index (LAI), Leaf Area Index (LAI) , Geopotential Height, Altitude, Surface Temperature , Upper Air Temperature, Dew Point Temperature, Air Temperature, Cloud Top Temperature, Atmospheric Winds , Surface Winds , U/V Wind Components, Upper Level Winds, U/V Wind Components, Vertical Wind Velocity/Speed, Atmospheric Pressure, Sea Level Pressure, Cloud Top Pressure, Sea Level Pressure, Surface Pressure, Specific Humidity, Total Precipitable Water, Cloud Liquid Water/Ice, Atmospheric Water Vapor, Atmospheric Ozone, Oxygen Compounds, Boundary Layer Winds, Skin Temperature
MERRA-2 tavgM_2d_lnd_Nx: 2d,Monthly mean,Time-Averaged,Single-Level,Assimilation,Land Surface Diagnostics 0.625 x 0.5 degree V5.12.4 (M2TMNXLND) MERRA-2 tavgM_2d_slv_Nx: 2d,Monthly mean,Time-Averaged,Single-Level,Assimilation,Single-Level Diagnostics 0.625 x 0.5 degree V5.12.4 (M2TMNXSLV)
Leaf Shedding During Drought Reduces Hydraulic Stress in Trees
2026
Quetin, G. R., Anderegg, L. D. L., Trugman, A. T.
Surface Pressure, Heat Flux, Longwave Radiation, Shortwave Radiation, Surface Temperature , Humidity , Evapotranspiration , Surface Winds , Rain , Precipitation Rate , Snow, Soil Moisture/Water Content , Soil Temperature, Land Surface Temperature , Snow Water Equivalent , Runoff , Ground Water
Impacts of Salinity Stratification on Sub-Seasonal SST Warming in the Northern Indian Ocean
2026
Kerhalkar, S., Tandon, A., MacKinnon, J. A.
Longwave Radiation, Shortwave Radiation, Soil Heat Budget, Soil Heat Budget, Soil Temperature, Soil Temperature, Soil Infiltration, Soil Infiltration, Soil Moisture/Water Content , Surface Soil Moisture, Root Zone Soil Moisture, Soil Moisture/Water Content , Evaporation, Surface Water, Runoff Rate, Average Flow, Average Flow, Precipitation , Snow/Ice , Snow Depth , Snow Melt , Snow/Ice Temperature, Leaf Area Index (LAI), Leaf Area Index (LAI)
Climate-dominated, LUCC-enhanced waterecosystem responses in the humid temperate Tumen River basin
2026
Wang, Haiqing, Su, Mengqi, Qi, Peng, Li, Guangyin, Zou, Yuanchun
Land Surface Temperature , Emissivity, Vegetation Index , Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI), Surface Pressure, Heat Flux, Longwave Radiation, Shortwave Radiation, Surface Temperature , Humidity , Evapotranspiration , Surface Winds , Rain , Precipitation Rate , Snow, Soil Moisture/Water Content , Soil Temperature, Snow Water Equivalent , Runoff , Land Use/Land Cover Classification , Terrestrial Water Storage, Ground Water , Glacier Mass Balance/Ice Sheet Mass Balance
Spatiotemporal dynamics and drivers of water and carbon use efficiency in the Yellow River basin with harmonized MODIS and GLASS data
2026
Zhou, Shilun, Lyu, Ruiting, Wang, Feiyang, Guan, Xiaodan, Nie, Ning
Photosynthesis, Primary Production, Vegetation Productivity, Aerosol Optical Depth/Thickness , Longwave Radiation, Shortwave Radiation, Soil Heat Budget, Soil Heat Budget, Soil Temperature, Soil Temperature, Soil Infiltration, Soil Infiltration, Soil Moisture/Water Content , Surface Soil Moisture, Root Zone Soil Moisture, Soil Moisture/Water Content , Evaporation, Surface Water, Runoff Rate, Average Flow, Average Flow, Precipitation , Snow/Ice , Snow Depth , Snow Melt , Snow/Ice Temperature, Leaf Area Index (LAI), Leaf Area Index (LAI)
MODIS/Terra Gross Primary Productivity Gap-Filled 8-Day L4 Global 500m SIN Grid V061 MODIS/Terra Gross Primary Productivity Gap-Filled 8-Day L4 Global 500m SIN Grid V061 MERRA-2 inst3_2d_gas_Nx: 2d,3-Hourly,Instantaneous,Single-Level,Assimilation,Aerosol Optical Depth Analysis 0.625 x 0.5 degree V5.12.4 (M2I3NXGAS) MERRA-2 tavgM_2d_lnd_Nx: 2d,Monthly mean,Time-Averaged,Single-Level,Assimilation,Land Surface Diagnostics 0.625 x 0.5 degree V5.12.4 (M2TMNXLND)
Reproducing GRACE total water storage change at finer spatial scales
2026
Li, Fupeng, Kusche, Jurgen
Terrestrial Water Storage, Ground Water , Glacier Mass Balance/Ice Sheet Mass Balance
Tree size-dependent effects of tree diversity on aboveground biomass during development in subtropical coniferous forests
2026
Zhu, Yu, Wang, Chen, Wang, Jiajia, Li, Quanlin, Zhu, Liangjun, Zhao, Meifang, Gao, Fei, Wang, Zhao, Liu, Shuguang
Geopotential Height, Altitude, Surface Temperature , Skin Temperature, Upper Air Temperature, Dew Point Temperature, Air Temperature, Cloud Top Temperature, Atmospheric Winds , Surface Winds , U/V Wind Components, Upper Level Winds, U/V Wind Components, Vertical Wind Velocity/Speed, Atmospheric Pressure, Sea Level Pressure, Cloud Top Pressure, Sea Level Pressure, Surface Pressure, Specific Humidity, Total Precipitable Water, Cloud Liquid Water/Ice, Atmospheric Water Vapor, Atmospheric Ozone, Oxygen Compounds, Boundary Layer Winds, Total Ozone, Atmospheric Radiation, Longwave Radiation, Shortwave Radiation, Radiative Flux, Radiative Forcing, Surface Radiative Properties , Albedo , Emissivity, Cloud Properties, Cloud Fraction, Cloud Optical Depth/Thickness, Skin Temperature, Sea Surface Skin Temperature, Heat Flux, Water Vapor, Precipitation Rate , Snow/Ice , Evaporation, Latent Heat Flux, Latent Heat Flux, Sensible Heat Flux, Diffusion, Surface Winds , Wind Speed , Wind Stress, Wind Stress, Surface Roughness, Planetary Boundary Layer Height, Ice Fraction, Soil Heat Budget, Soil Heat Budget, Soil Temperature, Soil Temperature, Soil Infiltration, Soil Infiltration, Soil Moisture/Water Content , Surface Soil Moisture, Root Zone Soil Moisture, Soil Moisture/Water Content , Surface Water, Runoff Rate, Average Flow, Average Flow, Precipitation , Snow Depth , Snow Melt , Snow/Ice Temperature, Leaf Area Index (LAI), Leaf Area Index (LAI)
MERRA-2 tavg1_2d_slv_Nx: 2d,1-Hourly,Time-Averaged,Single-Level,Assimilation,Single-Level Diagnostics 0.625 x 0.5 degree V5.12.4 (M2T1NXSLV) MERRA-2 tavg1_2d_rad_Nx: 2d,1-Hourly,Time-Averaged,Single-Level,Assimilation,Radiation Diagnostics 0.625 x 0.5 degree V5.12.4 (M2T1NXRAD) MERRA-2 tavg1_2d_flx_Nx: 2d,1-Hourly,Time-Averaged,Single-Level,Assimilation,Surface Flux Diagnostics 0.625 x 0.5 degree V5.12.4 (M2T1NXFLX) MERRA-2 tavg1_2d_lnd_Nx: 2d,1-Hourly,Time-Averaged,Single-Level,Assimilation,Land Surface Diagnostics 0.625 x 0.5 degree V5.12.4 (M2T1NXLND)
Drought-flood abrupt alternation in the Huaibei plain and its impacts on crops
2026
Liang, Chenhui, Zhu, Yonghua, Lu, Haishen, Huang, Yuxin, Xiao, Ruixin, Ding, Yiding, Yao, Yiling, Li, Yuxuan, Li, Yixuan, Pei, Ke, Gao, Tianrun
Longwave Radiation, Shortwave Radiation, Soil Heat Budget, Soil Heat Budget, Soil Temperature, Soil Temperature, Soil Infiltration, Soil Infiltration, Soil Moisture/Water Content , Surface Soil Moisture, Root Zone Soil Moisture, Soil Moisture/Water Content , Evaporation, Surface Water, Runoff Rate, Average Flow, Average Flow, Precipitation , Snow/Ice , Snow Depth , Snow Melt , Snow/Ice Temperature, Leaf Area Index (LAI), Leaf Area Index (LAI)
Storyline-Based Climate Attribution Reveals Strong Intensification of
2026
Kettaren, Ray, SanchezBenitez, Antonio, Goessling, Helge, Athanase, Marylou, Kumar, Rohini, Samaniego, Luis, Rakovec, Oldrich
Terrestrial Water Storage, Ground Water , Glacier Mass Balance/Ice Sheet Mass Balance
Sinkhole risk forecasting in the Lithuania-Latvia Karst region using
2026
Samalavicius, Vytautas, Bikse, Janis, Zaslavsky, Ilya, Lekstutyte, Ieva, Arustiene, Jurga, Zarzojus, Gintaras, Kunsakova, Assemzhan, Retike, Inga, Gadeikiene, Sonata, Gadeikis, Saulius
Surface Pressure, Heat Flux, Longwave Radiation, Shortwave Radiation, Surface Temperature , Humidity , Evapotranspiration , Surface Winds , Rain , Precipitation Rate , Snow, Soil Moisture/Water Content , Soil Temperature, Land Surface Temperature , Snow Water Equivalent , Runoff , Ground Water
Uncertain dynamic response of mid-latitude winter precipitation
2026
Gu, Lei, Schumacher, Dominik L., Sippel, Sebastian, Fischer, Erich M., Dunkl, Istvan, Noyelle, Robin, Singh, Jitendra, Pierini, Lorenzo, Knutti, Reto
Longwave Radiation, Shortwave Radiation, Soil Heat Budget, Soil Heat Budget, Soil Temperature, Soil Temperature, Soil Infiltration, Soil Infiltration, Soil Moisture/Water Content , Surface Soil Moisture, Root Zone Soil Moisture, Soil Moisture/Water Content , Evaporation, Surface Water, Runoff Rate, Average Flow, Average Flow, Precipitation , Snow/Ice , Snow Depth , Snow Melt , Snow/Ice Temperature, Leaf Area Index (LAI), Leaf Area Index (LAI)
Transfer Learning for TransformerBased Drought Forecasting Across Diverse Precipitation Products in India
2026
Pathania, Ashish, Gupta, Vivek
Surface Pressure, Heat Flux, Longwave Radiation, Shortwave Radiation, Surface Temperature , Humidity , Evapotranspiration , Surface Winds , Rain , Precipitation Rate , Snow, Soil Moisture/Water Content , Soil Temperature, Land Surface Temperature , Snow Water Equivalent , Runoff , Air Temperature, Specific Humidity, Wind Speed , Snow Cover , Snow Depth , Soil Heat Budget, Soil Heat Budget, Soil Temperature, Soil Infiltration, Soil Infiltration, Surface Soil Moisture, Root Zone Soil Moisture, Soil Moisture/Water Content , Evaporation, Surface Water, Runoff Rate, Average Flow, Average Flow, Precipitation , Snow/Ice , Snow Melt , Snow/Ice Temperature, Leaf Area Index (LAI), Leaf Area Index (LAI)
Exploring the effect of river spatial variability on SWOT discharge
2026
Zhang, Yushan, Durand, Michael, Coss, Steve P., Frasson, Renato Prata de Moraes, Prior, Elizabeth M., Gleason, Colin J.
Discharge Amount, Drainage Amount, Rivers/Streams , Total Surface Water , Total Runoff
Fine-scale simulation and projection of aboveground biomass dynamics in subtropical forests of Central-southern China: coupling remote sensing data and dynamic ...
2026
Feng, Tianqi, Shen, Huanfeng, Huang, Wenli
Reflectance , Discharge, Soil Depth, Biomass, Soil Moisture/Water Content , Albedo , Leaf Characteristics, Photosynthetically Active Radiation , Carbon , Respiration Rate, Atmospheric Water Vapor, Runoff
Geodetic evidence of water mass loss from global navigation satellite system measured land uplift in Turkiye
2026
Ansari, Kutubuddin, Kaykc, Emine Tanr
Surface Pressure, Heat Flux, Longwave Radiation, Shortwave Radiation, Surface Temperature , Humidity , Evapotranspiration , Surface Winds , Rain , Precipitation Rate , Snow, Soil Moisture/Water Content , Soil Temperature, Land Surface Temperature , Snow Water Equivalent , Runoff , Terrestrial Water Storage, Ground Water , Glacier Mass Balance/Ice Sheet Mass Balance
Assessing the impacts of urbanization and climate variability on
2026
Shah, Adnan Abbas
Precipitation , Rain , Precipitation Amount, Precipitation Rate , Snow, Surface Pressure, Heat Flux, Longwave Radiation, Shortwave Radiation, Surface Temperature , Humidity , Evapotranspiration , Surface Winds , Soil Moisture/Water Content , Soil Temperature, Land Surface Temperature , Snow Water Equivalent , Runoff , Ground Water , Vegetation Index , Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI), Photosynthesis, Primary Production, Latent Heat Flux, Emissivity
Differences and causes of interannual variations of global mean sea level between two El Nino events in 20142016 and 20232024
2026
Jin, Zehui, Zhong, Min, Yang, Meng, Feng, Wei
Terrestrial Water Storage, Ground Water , Glacier Mass Balance/Ice Sheet Mass Balance
Divergent regional trends in alpine tundra productivity linked to changes in snow-free season length and summer warming
2026
Moore, Miles A, Emery, Nancy C, Elmendorf, Sarah C
Surface Pressure, Heat Flux, Longwave Radiation, Shortwave Radiation, Surface Temperature , Humidity , Evapotranspiration , Surface Winds , Rain , Precipitation Rate , Snow, Soil Moisture/Water Content , Soil Temperature, Land Surface Temperature , Snow Water Equivalent , Runoff , Ground Water
Reconstructing reservoir water levels using basin-scale GRACE TWS and
2026
Besnier, Jessica, Getirana, Augusto, Biswas, Nishan Kumar, Lakshmi, Venkataraman
Surface Pressure, Heat Flux, Longwave Radiation, Shortwave Radiation, Surface Temperature , Humidity , Evapotranspiration , Surface Winds , Rain , Precipitation Rate , Snow, Soil Moisture/Water Content , Soil Temperature, Land Surface Temperature , Snow Water Equivalent , Runoff , Ground Water , Terrestrial Water Storage
Global subsidence of river deltas
2026
Ohenhen, L. O., Shirzaei, M., Davis, J. L., Tiwari, A., Nicholls, R., Dasho, O., Sadhasivam, N., Seeger, K., Werth, S., Chadwick, A. J., Onyike, F., Lucy, J., Atkins, C., Daramola, S., Ankamah, A., Minderhoud, P. S. J., Oelsmann, J., Yemele, G. C.
Terrestrial Water Storage, Ground Water , Glacier Mass Balance/Ice Sheet Mass Balance
A new, long-term root zone soil moisture dataset for operational agricultural drought monitoring over Africa
2026
Maidment, Ross I., Quaife, Tristan, Pinnington, Ewan, Black, Emily, Ejigu, Amsalework, Kumar, Dhirendra, Thomas, Simon
Surface Pressure, Heat Flux, Longwave Radiation, Shortwave Radiation, Air Temperature, Specific Humidity, Evapotranspiration , Wind Speed , Rain , Snow, Soil Moisture/Water Content , Soil Temperature, Land Surface Temperature , Snow Cover , Snow Depth , Snow Water Equivalent , Runoff , Surface Temperature , Humidity , Surface Winds , Precipitation Rate , Ground Water , Root Zone Soil Moisture, Surface Soil Moisture