Abstract: The validation of satellite surface soil moisture products requires comparisons between point-scale ground observations and footprint-scale (>100 km2) retrievals. In regions containing a limited number of measurement sites ...

Abstract: AbstractWe present Multi-Source Weighted-Ensemble Precipitation, version 2 (MSWEP V2), a gridded precipitation P dataset spanning 1979?2017. MSWEP V2 is unique in several aspects: i) full global coverage (all land and ...

Abstract: Capsule summaryMSWEP V2 is the first fully global precipitation dataset with a 0.1° resolution derived by optimally merging a range of gauge, satellite, and reanalysis estimates.

Abstract: AbstractThis article developed and implemented a new methodology for calculating the standardized evapotranspiration deficit index (SEDI) globally based on the log-logistic distribution to fit the evaporation deficit (ED), ...