Hydrology and Earth System Sciences (Nov 2021)
The International Soil Moisture Network: serving Earth system science for over a decade
- W. Dorigo,
- I. Himmelbauer,
- D. Aberer,
- L. Schremmer,
- I. Petrakovic,
- L. Zappa,
- W. Preimesberger,
- A. Xaver,
- F. Annor,
- F. Annor,
- J. Ardö,
- D. Baldocchi,
- M. Bitelli,
- G. Blöschl,
- H. Bogena,
- L. Brocca,
- J.-C. Calvet,
- J. J. Camarero,
- G. Capello,
- M. Choi,
- M. C. Cosh,
- N. van de Giesen,
- I. Hajdu,
- J. Ikonen,
- K. H. Jensen,
- K. H. Jensen,
- K. D. Kanniah,
- I. de Kat,
- G. Kirchengast,
- P. Kumar Rai,
- J. Kyrouac,
- K. Larson,
- S. Liu,
- S. Liu,
- A. Loew,
- M. Moghaddam,
- J. Martínez Fernández,
- C. Mattar Bader,
- R. Morbidelli,
- J. P. Musial,
- E. Osenga,
- M. A. Palecki,
- T. Pellarin,
- G. P. Petropoulous,
- I. Pfeil,
- J. Powers,
- A. Robock,
- C. Rüdiger,
- U. Rummel,
- M. Strobel,
- Z. Su,
- R. Sullivan,
- T. Tagesson,
- T. Tagesson,
- A. Varlagin,
- M. Vreugdenhil,
- J. Walker,
- J. Wen,
- F. Wenger,
- J. P. Wigneron,
- M. Woods,
- K. Yang,
- Y. Zeng,
- X. Zhang,
- M. Zreda,
- S. Dietrich,
- A. Gruber,
- P. van Oevelen,
- W. Wagner,
- K. Scipal,
- M. Drusch,
- R. Sabia
Affiliations
- W. Dorigo
- Department of Geodesy and Geoinformation, TU Wien, Vienna, Austria
- I. Himmelbauer
- Department of Geodesy and Geoinformation, TU Wien, Vienna, Austria
- D. Aberer
- Department of Geodesy and Geoinformation, TU Wien, Vienna, Austria
- L. Schremmer
- Department of Geodesy and Geoinformation, TU Wien, Vienna, Austria
- I. Petrakovic
- Department of Geodesy and Geoinformation, TU Wien, Vienna, Austria
- L. Zappa
- Department of Geodesy and Geoinformation, TU Wien, Vienna, Austria
- W. Preimesberger
- Department of Geodesy and Geoinformation, TU Wien, Vienna, Austria
- A. Xaver
- Department of Geodesy and Geoinformation, TU Wien, Vienna, Austria
- F. Annor
- Trans-African Hydro-Meteorological Observatory, TU Delft, Delft, the Netherlands
- F. Annor
- Water Management Department, TU Delft, Delft, the Netherlands
- J. Ardö
- Department of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
- D. Baldocchi
- Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA
- M. Bitelli
- Department of Agricultural and Food Sciences, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
- G. Blöschl
- Institute of Hydraulic Engineering and Water Resources Management, TU Wien, Vienna, Austria
- H. Bogena
- Institute of Bio- and Geosciences Agrosphere (IBG-3), Forschungszentrum Juelich GmbH, Juelich, Germany
- L. Brocca
- Research Institute for Geo-Hydrological Protection, National Research Council of Italy, Perugia, Italy
- J.-C. Calvet
- CNRM, Université de Toulouse, Météo-France, CNRS – Centre national de la recherche scientifique, Toulouse, France
- J. J. Camarero
- Instituto Pirenaico de Ecología, IPE-CSIC, Zaragoza, Spain
- G. Capello
- Institute of Sciences and Technologies for Sustainable Energy and Mobility, National Research Council of Italy, Torino, Italy
- M. Choi
- Environment and Remote Sensing Laboratory, School of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering, College of Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University, Jangan-gu, Suwon, Gyeonggi-do, Republic of Korea
- M. C. Cosh
- Hydrology and Remote Sensing Laboratory, USDA–Agricultural Research Service (USDA-ARS), Beltsville, MD, USA
- N. van de Giesen
- Water Management Department, TU Delft, Delft, the Netherlands
- I. Hajdu
- PlantTech Research Institute, Tauranga, New Zealand
- J. Ikonen
- Space and Earth Observation Centre, Finnish Meteorological Institute, Helsinki, Finland
- K. H. Jensen
- Department of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
- K. H. Jensen
- Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
- K. D. Kanniah
- Centre for Environmental Sustainability and Water Security (IPASA), Faculty of Built Environment and Surveying, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Johor Bahru, Malaysia
- I. de Kat
- VanderSat B. V., Haarlem, the Netherlands
- G. Kirchengast
- Wegener Center for Climate and Global Change (WEGC), University of Graz, Graz, Austria
- P. Kumar Rai
- Department of Biotechnology, Invertis University, Bareilly, India
- J. Kyrouac
- Environmental Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, IL, USA
- K. Larson
- Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA
- S. Liu
- Key Laboratory of Water Cycle and Related Land Surface Processes, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
- S. Liu
- Sino-Danish Center, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
- A. Loew
- Department of Geography, Ludwig-Maximilian-Universität, Munich, Germany
- M. Moghaddam
- Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
- J. Martínez Fernández
- Instituto Hispano Luso de Investigaciones Agrarias, CIALE, Universidad de Salamanca, Villamayor, Spain
- C. Mattar Bader
- Laboratory for Analysis of the Biosphere, University of Chile, Santiago, Chile
- R. Morbidelli
- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Perugia, Perugia, Italy
- J. P. Musial
- Institute of Geodesy and Cartography (IGiK), Remote Sensing Centre, Warsaw, Poland
- E. Osenga
- Aspen Global Change Institute (AGCI), Basalt, CO, USA
- M. A. Palecki
- NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Asheville, NC, USA
- T. Pellarin
- CNRS – Centre national de la recherche scientifique, LTHE, University of Grenoble Alpes, France
- G. P. Petropoulous
- Department of Geography, Harokopio University of Athens, Athens, Greece
- I. Pfeil
- Department of Geodesy and Geoinformation, TU Wien, Vienna, Austria
- J. Powers
- Science and Technology Branch, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
- A. Robock
- Department of Environmental Sciences, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, USA
- C. Rüdiger
- Department of Civil Engineering, Monash University, Clayton, Australia
- U. Rummel
- Meteorologisches Observatorium Lindenberg – Richard-Aßmann-Observatorium, DWD, Lindenberg, Germany
- M. Strobel
- USDA-NRCS National Water and Climate Center, Portland, OR, USA
- Z. Su
- Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation, University of Twente, Enschede, the Netherlands
- R. Sullivan
- Environmental Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, IL, USA
- T. Tagesson
- Department of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
- T. Tagesson
- Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
- A. Varlagin
- A. N. Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
- M. Vreugdenhil
- Department of Geodesy and Geoinformation, TU Wien, Vienna, Austria
- J. Walker
- Department of Civil Engineering, Monash University, Clayton, Australia
- J. Wen
- College of Atmospheric Sciences, Plateau Atmosphere and Environment Key Laboratory of Sichuan Province, Chengdu University of Information Technology, Chengdu, China
- F. Wenger
- Norwegian Water Resources and Energy Directorate, Oslo, Norway
- J. P. Wigneron
- MOST, ISPA, INRAE Bordeaux Aquitaine, Bordeaux, France
- M. Woods
- Social Digital, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, University of Dundee, Dundee, UK
- K. Yang
- Department of Earth System Science, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
- Y. Zeng
- Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation, University of Twente, Enschede, the Netherlands
- X. Zhang
- State Key Laboratory of Information Engineering in Surveying, Mapping and Remote Sensing (LIESMARS), Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
- M. Zreda
- Department of Hydrology and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA
- S. Dietrich
- International Centre for Water Resources and Global Change ICWRGC (UNESCO), Federal Institute of Hydrology, Koblenz, Germany
- A. Gruber
- Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, KU Leuven, Heverlee, Belgium
- P. van Oevelen
- International GEWEX Project Office, Washington, DC, USA
- W. Wagner
- Department of Geodesy and Geoinformation, TU Wien, Vienna, Austria
- K. Scipal
- ESRIN, European Space Agency, Frascati, Italy
- M. Drusch
- ESTEC, European Space Agency, Noordwijk, the Netherlands
- R. Sabia
- ESRIN, European Space Agency, Frascati, Italy
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-25-5749-2021
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 25
pp. 5749 – 5804
Abstract
In 2009, the International Soil Moisture Network (ISMN) was initiated as a community effort, funded by the European Space Agency, to serve as a centralised data hosting facility for globally available in situ soil moisture measurements (Dorigo et al., 2011b, a). The ISMN brings together in situ soil moisture measurements collected and freely shared by a multitude of organisations, harmonises them in terms of units and sampling rates, applies advanced quality control, and stores them in a database. Users can freely retrieve the data from this database through an online web portal (https://ismn.earth/en/, last access: 28 October 2021). Meanwhile, the ISMN has evolved into the primary in situ soil moisture reference database worldwide, as evidenced by more than 3000 active users and over 1000 scientific publications referencing the data sets provided by the network. As of July 2021, the ISMN now contains the data of 71 networks and 2842 stations located all over the globe, with a time period spanning from 1952 to the present. The number of networks and stations covered by the ISMN is still growing, and approximately 70 % of the data sets contained in the database continue to be updated on a regular or irregular basis. The main scope of this paper is to inform readers about the evolution of the ISMN over the past decade, including a description of network and data set updates and quality control procedures. A comprehensive review of the existing literature making use of ISMN data is also provided in order to identify current limitations in functionality and data usage and to shape priorities for the next decade of operations of this unique community-based data repository.
