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Chinese FY-3 satellites enrich global soil moisture dataset

Surface soil moisture (SSM) plays an important role in drought and flood monitoring, weather forecasting, among other natural resource activities, and is also critical in water and heat exchanges between land and atmosphere.

Why El Niño doesn't mean certain drought

The Bureau of Meteorology released its latest climate driver update on Tuesday, saying the current La Niña has weakened and is "likely near its end." Most climate models now point to neutral conditions—neither El Niño ...

Improving wildfire predictions with soil science

Severe wildfires have become annual events in the United States. The years 2020 and 2021 were the worst in wildfire history in California. Other states—and countries—are at risk as well. Climate change is making wildfires ...

How much greenhouse gas do tropical soils emit?

Nitrogen changes form as it cycles between air, soil, and life. Soils, for example, emit nitrogen either as inert dinitrogen (N2), which dominates our atmosphere, or as nitric oxide (NO) or nitrous oxide (N2O), the greenhouse ...

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