The International Soil Moisture Network: serving Earth system science for over a decade

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• Journal Title:
  Hydrology and Earth System Sciences
• Personal Author:
  Dorigo, Wouter ; Himmelbauer, Irene ; Aberer, Daniel ; Schremmer, Lukas ; Petrakovic, Ivana ; Zappa, Luca ; Preimesberger, Wolfgang ; Xaver, Angelika ; Annor, Frank ; Ardö, Jonas ; Baldocchi, Dennis ; Bitelli, Marco ; Blöschl, Günter ; Bogena, Heye ; Brocca, Luca ; Calvet, Jean-Christophe ; Camarero, J. Julio ; Capello, Giorgio ; Choi, Minha ; Cosh, Michael C. ; van de Giesen, Nick ; Hajdu, Istvan ; Ikonen, Jaakko ; Jensen, Karsten H. ; Kanniah, Kasturi Devi ; de Kat, Ileen ; Kirchengast, Gottfried ; Kumar Rai, Pankaj ; Kyrouac, Jenni ; Larson, Kristine ; Liu, Suxia ; Loew, Alexander ; Moghaddam, Mahta ; Martínez Fernández, José ; Mattar Bader, Cristian ; Morbidelli, Renato ; Musial, Jan P. ; Osenga, Elise ; Palecki, Michael A. ; Pellarin, Thierry ; Petropoulos, George P. ; Pfeil, Isabella ; Powers, Jarrett ; Robock, Alan ; Rüdiger, Christoph ; Rummel, Udo ; Strobel, Michael ; Su, Zhongbo ; Sullivan, Ryan ; Tagesson, Torbern ; Varlagin, Andrej ; Vreugdenhil, Mariette ; Walker, Jeffrey ; Wen, Jun ; Wenger, Fred ; Wigneron, Jean Pierre ; Woods, Mel ; Yang, Kun ; Zeng, Yijian ; Zhang, Xiang ; Zreda, Marek ; Dietrich, Stephan ; Gruber, Alexander ; van Oevelen, Peter ; Wagner, Wolfgang ; Scipal, Klaus ; Drusch, Matthias ; Sabia, Roberto
• NOAA Program & Office:
  NCEI (National Centers for Environmental Information) ; NESDIS (National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service)
• Description:
  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.
• Subjects:
  • General Earth and Planetary Sciences
  • General Engineering
  • General Environmental Science
• Keywords:
  • General Earth and Planetary Sciences
  • General Engineering
  • General Environmental Science
• Source:
  Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 25(11), 5749-5804
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-25-5749-2021
• ISSN:
  1607-7938
• Format:
  PDF
• Publisher:
  Copernicus GmbH
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• License:
  https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Rights Information:
  CC BY
• Compliance:
  Library
• Download URL:
  https://repository.library.noaa.gov/view/noaa/64619/noaa_64619_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 4.08 MB]
• Collection(s):
  National Environmental Satellite and Data Information Service (NESDIS)
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:e01ae11ab59b771dbf24550713385ae9e5d5fbc6de589f89e897924292c531972b77d43c33c496164f906a10d3b3e51462c3840aea9587c60bbb54a9b8e755a6