Land surfaces are characterised by strong heterogeneities of soil texture, orography, land cover, moisture, snow, and other variables. The complexity the surface properties is very challenging to represent accurately in radiative transfer models, which have a limited reliability over land, especially for observations such as given. This has resulted difficulties assimilating land-surface relate...

• Evaluation of precipitation estimates from top down and bottom up approach.. The VIC model is used to scrutinize the uncertainty products. IMERG depicts better performance annually over India. Land surface processes significantly influence weather thereby affecting terrestrial water balance. Even though land models (LSMs) offer a complementary means examining fluxes, their simulations are oft...

Abstract. Microwave observations are sensitive to plant water content and could therefore provide essential information on biomass status in ecological agricultural applications. The combined data record of the C-band scatterometers European Remote-Sensing Satellites (ERS)-1/2, Metop (Meteorological Operational satellite) series, planned Second Generation satellites will span over 40 years, whi...

A novel approach in addressing cyclone global navigation satellite system (CyGNSS) intersatellite and GPS-related calibration issues is proposed, based on a track-wise $\sigma ^{o}$ bias correction method. This method makes use of bot...

The Sentinel-1 mission will offer the opportunity to obtain C-band radar data characterized by short revisit time, thus allowing the generation of frequent soil moisture maps through the application of multitemporal retrieval algorithms. Exploiting the availability of some archived ERS SAR data with a short revisit time, this paper compares the estimates obtained by applying a multitemporal alg...