The International Soil Moisture Network: serving Earth system science for over a decade
Year: 2021
Type: article
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., 2011a, b). The ISMN brings together in situ soil moisture measurements collected and freely shared by a multitude of organisations, harmonizes 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). 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 December 2020, the ISMN now contains data of 65 networks and 2678 stations located all over the globe, with a time period spanning from 1952 to present.The number of networks and stations covered by the ISMN is still growing and many of the data sets contained in the database continue to be updated. 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 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.
Authors: Wouter Dorigo, Irene Himmelbauer, Daniel Aberer, Lukas Schremmer, Ivana Petrakovic, Luca Zappa, Wolfgang Preimesberger, Angelika Xaver, Frank Annor, Jonas Ardö, Dennis Baldocchi, Marco Bitelli, Günter Blöschl, Heye Bogena, Luca Brocca, Jean-Christophe Calvet, J. Julio Camarero, Giorgio Capello, Minha Choi, Michael C. Cosh, Nick van de Giesen, Istvan Hajdu, Jaakko Ikonen, Karsten H. Jensen, Kasturi Devi Kanniah, Ileen de Kat, Gottfried Kirchengast, Pankaj Kumar Rai, Jenni Kyrouac, Kristine Larson, Suxia Liu, Alexander Loew, Mahta Moghaddam, José Martínez Fernández, Cristian Mattar Bader, Renato Morbidelli, Jan P. Musial, Elise Osenga, Michael A. Palecki, Thierry Pellarin, George P. Petropoulos, Isabella Pfeil, Jarrett Powers, Alan Robock, Christoph Rüdiger, Udo Rummel, Michael Strobel, Zhongbo Su, Ryan Sullivan, Torbern Tagesson, Andrej Varlagin, Mariette Vreugdenhil, Jeffrey Walker, Jun Wen, Fred Wenger, Jean Pierre Wigneron, Mel Woods, Kun Yang, Yijian Zeng, Xiang Zhang, Marek Zreda, Stephan Dietrich, Alexander Gruber, Peter van Oevelen, Wolfgang Wagner, Klaus Scipal, Matthias Drusch, Roberto Sabia
Institutions: TU Wien, Delft University of Technology, Lund University, University of California, Berkeley, University of Bologna, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Research Institute for Geo-Hydrological Protection, National Research Council, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Centre National de Recherches Météorologiques, Météo-France, Université de Toulouse, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Instituto Pirenaico de Ecología, Sungkyunkwan University, Agricultural Research Service, United States Department of Agriculture, Beltsville Agricultural Research Center, Finnish Meteorological Institute, University of Copenhagen, University of Technology Malaysia, University of Graz, Invertis University, Argonne National Laboratory, University of Colorado Boulder, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, University of Southern California, Universidad de Salamanca, Instituto de Investigación en Agrobiotecnología, University of Chile, University of Perugia, Institute of Geodesy and Cartography, Aspen Global Change Institute, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Institut des Géosciences de l'Environnement, Université Grenoble Alpes, Harokopio University of Athens, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Monash University, Deutscher Wetterdienst, International Institute for Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation, University of Twente, Russian Academy of Sciences, Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution, Chengdu University of Information Technology, Norwegian Water Resources and Energy Directorate, Institut National de Recherche pour l'Agriculture, l'Alimentation et l'Environnement, University of Dundee, Tsinghua University, Wuhan University, State Key Laboratory of Information Engineering in Surveying Mapping and Remote Sensing, University of Arizona, Federal Institute of Hydrology, International Centre for Water Resources and Global Change, KU Leuven, European Space Research Institute, European Space Agency, European Space Research and Technology Centre
Language: English
Subfield: Environmental Engineering
Field: Environmental Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: gold
Estimated APC paid: $5,580
OpenAlex ID: W3134876352