El Niño’s foot print over land surfaces (Oct 2026 s...
As an exceptional El Niño event continues to strengthen (with sea surface temperature anomalies now exceeding +4.0°C in some places […]
SMOS Monitors El Niño
Fabrice Bonjean from LOCEAN has set up a very nice page to view El Niño (ENSO for El Niño Southern […]
SMOS powers tool for monitoring long-term droughts
Above : Comparison between SSI-24 and gridded SPI-24 of the Ebro basin for November 2017 This article is adapted from […]
Are reanalyses reliable for soil moisture extremes and fl...
Above : flood detection on October 2024, near lake Chad and the Niger Delta. Detection is based on the upper […]
RadLand 2027: call for abstracts
We are sharing the Call for Abstracts for the Next-Generation Microwave Radiometry Community Forum: Algorithms, Calibration/Validation, and Applications for Land […]
AGU26 Meeting for our “The global water cycle: coup...
The conference will run in person and virtually this year from Monday to Friday, 7-11 December 2026, in San Francisco, […]
Accounting for spatial specificities improves biomass est...
Passive microwave radiometers, such as SMOS, measure the Earth’s natural microwave emissions. As this radiation travels upwards, the soil emission […]
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L-Band radiometry for Earth’s Essential Climate Variables
Above : Illustration of L-band microwave radiometry satellites (SMOS, SMAP, Aquarius) used to monitor the ECVs discussed in the newly […]
SMOS: longest operational ESA EO satellite in orbit
Dear all Spring is coming and, meanwhile, yesterday SMOS surpassed ERS-2 as the longest operational ESA EO satellite in orbit […]