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Category: L4

Above-Ground Biomass CATDS L4 land Vegetation Optical Depth

Monitoring global biomass : a scientific challenge

Earth is covered with vegetation which stocks and releases carbon. Understanding the fluctuations of the so called Above Ground Biomass […]

SMOS blog -- May 19, 2025

CATDS L4 land Model

Can root zone soil moisture detect irrigation signals ?

The root-zone soil moisture refers to the amount of water present in the layer where plants can freely absorb it. […]

SMOS blog -- October 7, 2024

cryosphere ground measurements L4 land Model

Toward high latitude areas (2/2) : soil moisture retrieva...

© Julia Boike – View of the Mackenzie Delta with its open water areas (lakes and meandering rivers) In a […]

SMOS blog -- August 7, 2024

cryosphere L3 L4 land Vegetation Optical Depth

Toward high latitude areas (1/2) : Finnish Meteorological...

SMOS was originally designed to measure ocean salinity and soil moisture / vegetation optical depth from space. Over time its […]

SMOS blog -- July 12, 2024

L4
Paleolithic rock art in the Altamira cave (northern Spain, World Heritage site), dating from 11,000 to 35,000 BC. Altamira National Museum and Research Centre, Spanish Ministry of Culture and Sport. Photographer P Saura

Cave art and climate: how satellites and chaos theory cou...

© Museum of Altamira and Cave of Altamira, Spanish Ministry of Culture and Sport. Photographer P Saura Tracking the cave […]

SMOS blog -- May 27, 2024

CATDS L4 land Team SMOS

A new Drought Index derived from SMOS data is available a...

Europe experience severe drought last summer. Such conditions need to be monitored and understood especially with regards to agronomical droughts […]

Yann KERR -- April 24, 2023

CATDS L4 land Team SMOS

New root zone soil moisture product is updated (and opera...

As you may be aware a root zone soil moisture science product was available (made by Ahmad Al bitar and […]

Yann KERR -- December 13, 2022

CATDS L3 L4 land

Novel application on Denitrification using SMOS data

The novel application with the SMOS data in this recent paper in Copernicus Biogeosciences on quantification of CO2 and N2O emissions from […]

Ahmad Al Bitar -- September 21, 2020

CATDS L2 L3 L4 Ocean Team SMOS

Sea surface salinity estimates from space: A decade of ob...

A very interesting review has just been published on sea surface salinity from Space. Figure 1: Monthly average map of […]

Yann KERR -- March 25, 2020 0

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