Terrestrial satellite records for climate studies: how long is long enough? A test case for the Sahel

Evaluating global trends (1988-2010) in harmonized multi-satellite surface soil moisture

(2012) Wouter Dorigo et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Greenness in semi-arid areas across the globe 1981–2007 — an Earth Observing Satellite based analysis of trends and drivers

(2012) Rasmus Fensholt et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Trend-preserving blending of passive and active microwave soil moisture retrievals

(2012) Y.Y. Liu et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Evaluation of Earth Observation based global long term vegetation trends — Comparing GIMMS and MODIS global NDVI time series

(2012) Rasmus Fensholt et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Combined evaluation of MPI-ESM land surface water and energy fluxes

(2012) Stefan Hagemann et al.   Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems

Evaluation of vegetation cover and land-surface albedo in MPI-ESM CMIP5 simulations

(2012) V. Brovkin et al.   Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems

Interannual and decadal SST-forced responses of the West African monsoon

(2011) Belén Rodríguez-Fonseca et al.   Atmospheric Science Letters

Globally Gridded Satellite Observations for Climate Studies

(2011) Kenneth R. Knapp et al.   BULLETIN OF THE AMERICAN METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETY

Trend changes in global greening and browning: contribution of short-term trends to longer-term change

(2011) Rogier Jong et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Analysis of teleconnections between AVHRR-based sea surface temperature and vegetation productivity in the semi-arid Sahel

(2011) Silvia Huber et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Global evaluation of four AVHRR–NDVI data sets: Intercomparison and assessment against Landsat imagery

(2011) Hylke E. Beck et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Remote sensing of solar surface radiation for climate monitoring — the CM-SAF retrieval in international comparison

(2011) R. Posselt et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

The response of African land surface phenology to large scale climate oscillations

(2010) Molly E. Brown et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Phenological change detection while accounting for abrupt and gradual trends in satellite image time series

(2010) Jan Verbesselt et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Analysis of trends in the Sahelian ‘rain-use efficiency’ using GIMMS NDVI, RFE and GPCP rainfall data

(2010) Rasmus Fensholt et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Towards Multidecadal Consistent Meteosat Surface Albedo Time Series

(2010) Alexander Loew et al.   Remote Sensing

Expansion of the world's deserts due to vegetation-albedo feedback under global warming

(2009) Ning Zeng et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

The European heat wave 2003: Early indicators from multisensoral microwave remote sensing?

(2009) Alexander Loew et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

A climate model-based review of drought in the Sahel: Desertification, the re-greening and climate change

(2008) Alessandra Giannini et al.   GLOBAL AND PLANETARY CHANGE

Performance metrics for climate models

(2008) P. J. Gleckler et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH