S. PUCA

Near-surface soil moisture is a key variable for the description of many hydrological and climatic processes. This variable governs the partitioning of mass and energy fluxes between land surface and the atmosphere, thereby playing an important role for many scientific and operational applications such as flood forecasting, landslide...

The reliable estimation of soil moisture in space and time is of fundamental importance in operational hydrology to improve the forecast of the rainfall-runoff response of catchments and, consequently, flood predictions. Nowadays several satellite-derived soil moisture products are available and can offer a chance to improve hydrological model...