What Rainfall Does Not Tell Us—Enhancing Financial Instruments with Satellite-Derived Soil Moisture and Evaporative Stress

Validation of CHIRPS precipitation dataset along the Central Andes of Argentina

(2018) Juan A. Rivera et al.   ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH

How will East African maize yields respond to climate change and can agricultural development mitigate this response?

(2018) Frank Davenport et al.   CLIMATIC CHANGE

Validation of the CHIRPS Satellite Rainfall Estimates over Eastern of Africa

(2018) T. Dinku et al.   QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETY

Negative soil moisture-precipitation feedback in dry and wet regions

(2018) Lingbin Yang et al.   Scientific Reports

Exploiting the convergence of evidence in satellite data for advanced weather index insurance design

(2018) Markus Enenkel et al.   Weather Climate and Society

Estimating morning change in land surface temperature from MODIS day/night observations: Applications for surface energy balance modeling

(2017) Christopher R. Hain et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

ESA CCI Soil Moisture for improved Earth system understanding: State-of-the art and future directions

(2017) Wouter Dorigo et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

An Assessment of Satellite-Derived Rainfall Products Relative to Ground Observations over East Africa

(2017) et al.   Remote Sensing

Soil Moisture Retrieval and Spatiotemporal Pattern Analysis Using Sentinel-1 Data of Dahra, Senegal

(2017) Zhiqu Liu et al.   Remote Sensing

Validation of a high-resolution precipitation database (CHIRPS) over Cyprus for a 30-year period

(2016) Dimitrios Katsanos et al.   ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH

Satellite soil moisture for advancing our understanding of earth system processes and climate change

(2016) Wouter Dorigo et al.   International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation

Evaluating ESA CCI soil moisture in East Africa

(2016) Amy McNally et al.   International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation

The Evaporative Stress Index as an indicator of agricultural drought in Brazil: An assessment based on crop yield impacts

(2016) Martha C. Anderson et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

The Use of Remotely Sensed Rainfall for Managing Drought Risk: A Case Study of Weather Index Insurance in Zambia

(2016) Emily Black et al.   Remote Sensing

Comparison of satellite-derived LAI and precipitation anomalies over Brazil with a thermal infrared-based Evaporative Stress Index for 2003–2013

(2015) Martha C. Anderson et al.   JOURNAL OF HYDROLOGY

Using Temporal Changes in Drought Indices to Generate Probabilistic Drought Intensification Forecasts

(2015) Jason A. Otkin et al.   JOURNAL OF HYDROMETEOROLOGY

The climate hazards infrared precipitation with stations—a new environmental record for monitoring extremes

(2015) Chris Funk et al.   Scientific Data

The impact of vertical measurement depth on the information content of soil moisture times series data

(2014) Jianxiu Qiu et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

The Potential and Uptake of Remote Sensing in Insurance: A Review

(2014) Jan de Leeuw et al.   Remote Sensing

Combined use of satellite estimates and rain gauge observations to generate high-quality historical rainfall time series over Ethiopia

(2013) Tufa Dinku et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CLIMATOLOGY

Examining Rapid Onset Drought Development Using the Thermal Infrared–Based Evaporative Stress Index

(2013) Jason A. Otkin et al.   JOURNAL OF HYDROMETEOROLOGY

The ASCAT Soil Moisture Product: A Review of its Specifications, Validation Results, and Emerging Applications

(2013) Wolfgang Wagner et al.   METEOROLOGISCHE ZEITSCHRIFT

Comparison of prognostic and diagnostic surface flux modeling approaches over the Nile River basin

(2013) M. Tugrul Yilmaz et al.   WATER RESOURCES RESEARCH

Collateral-free lending with risk-contingent credit for agricultural development: indemnifying loans against pulse crop price risk in India

(2012) Apurba Shee et al.   AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS

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

(2012) Wouter Dorigo et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

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

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

An objective methodology for merging satellite- and model-based soil moisture products

(2012) M. T. Yilmaz et al.   WATER RESOURCES RESEARCH

An ensemble Kalman filter dual assimilation of thermal infrared and microwave satellite observations of soil moisture into the Noah land surface model

(2012) Christopher R. Hain et al.   WATER RESOURCES RESEARCH

Covariate Catastrophic Risk Management in the Developing World: Discussion

(2011) C. B. Barrett   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS

An intercomparison of available soil moisture estimates from thermal infrared and passive microwave remote sensing and land surface modeling

(2011) Christopher R. Hain et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

The NCEP Climate Forecast System Reanalysis

(2010) Suranjana Saha et al.   BULLETIN OF THE AMERICAN METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETY

Robust negative impacts of climate change on African agriculture

(2010) Wolfram Schlenker et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Recent decline in the global land evapotranspiration trend due to limited moisture supply

(2010) Martin Jung et al.   NATURE

MODIS Collection 5 global land cover: Algorithm refinements and characterization of new datasets

(2009) Mark A. Friedl et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Earth's Global Energy Budget

(2008) Kevin E. Trenberth et al.   BULLETIN OF THE AMERICAN METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETY

ASCAT Soil Moisture: An Assessment of the Data Quality and Consistency with the ERS Scatterometer Heritage

(2008) Vahid Naeimi et al.   JOURNAL OF HYDROMETEOROLOGY

Assessment of Evapotranspiration and Soil Moisture Content Across Different Scales of Observation

(2008) Willem Verstraeten et al.   SENSORS