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The International Soil Moisture Network : Serving Earth system science for over a decade

Dorigo, Wouter ; Himmelbauer, Irene ; Aberer, Daniel ; Schremmer, Lukas ; Petrakovic, Ivana ; Zappa, Luca ; Preimesberger, Wolfgang ; Xaver, Angelika ; Annor, Frank and Ardö, Jonas LU orcid , et al. (2021) In Hydrology and Earth System Sciences 25(11). p.5749-5804
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 . The ISMN brings together in situ soil moisture measurements collected and freely shared by a multitude of organisations, harmonises 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/en/, last access: 28 October 2021). Meanwhile, the ISMN has evolved into the primary in situ soil moisture reference database worldwide, as evidenced by more than... (More)

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 . The ISMN brings together in situ soil moisture measurements collected and freely shared by a multitude of organisations, harmonises 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/en/, last access: 28 October 2021). 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 July 2021, the ISMN now contains the data of 71 networks and 2842 stations located all over the globe, with a time period spanning from 1952 to the present. The number of networks and stations covered by the ISMN is still growing, and approximately 70 % of the data sets contained in the database continue to be updated on a regular or irregular basis. 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 the 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.

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10.5194/hess-25-5749-2021
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  abstract     = {{<p>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 . The ISMN brings together in situ soil moisture measurements collected and freely shared by a multitude of organisations, harmonises 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/en/, last access: 28 October 2021). 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 July 2021, the ISMN now contains the data of 71 networks and 2842 stations located all over the globe, with a time period spanning from 1952 to the present. The number of networks and stations covered by the ISMN is still growing, and approximately 70 % of the data sets contained in the database continue to be updated on a regular or irregular basis. 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 the 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.</p>}},
  author       = {{Dorigo, Wouter and Himmelbauer, Irene and Aberer, Daniel and Schremmer, Lukas and Petrakovic, Ivana and Zappa, Luca and Preimesberger, Wolfgang and Xaver, Angelika and Annor, Frank and Ardö, Jonas and Baldocchi, Dennis and Bitelli, Marco and Blöschl, Günter and Bogena, Heye and Brocca, Luca and Calvet, Jean Christophe and Camarero, J. Julio and Capello, Giorgio and Choi, Minha and Cosh, Michael C. and Van De Giesen, Nick and Hajdu, Istvan and Ikonen, Jaakko and Jensen, Karsten H. and Kanniah, Kasturi Devi and De Kat, Ileen and Kirchengast, Gottfried and Kumar Rai, Pankaj and Kyrouac, Jenni and Larson, Kristine and Liu, Suxia and Loew, Alexander and Moghaddam, Mahta and Martínez Fernández, José and Mattar Bader, Cristian and Morbidelli, Renato and Musial, Jan P. and Osenga, Elise and Palecki, Michael A. and Pellarin, Thierry and Petropoulos, George P. and Pfeil, Isabella and Powers, Jarrett and Robock, Alan and Rüdiger, Christoph and Rummel, Udo and Strobel, Michael and Su, Zhongbo and Sullivan, Ryan and Tagesson, Torbern and Varlagin, Andrej and Vreugdenhil, Mariette and Walker, Jeffrey and Wen, Jun and Wenger, Fred and Wigneron, Jean-Pierre and Woods, Mel and Yang, Kun and Zeng, Yijian and Zhang, Xiang and Zreda, Marek and Dietrich, Stephan and Gruber, Alexander and van Oevelen, Peter and Wagner, Wolfgang and Scipal, Klaus and Drusch, Matthias and Sabia, Roberto}},
  issn         = {{1027-5606}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  month        = {{11}},
  number       = {{11}},
  pages        = {{5749--5804}},
  publisher    = {{European Geophysical Society}},
  series       = {{Hydrology and Earth System Sciences}},
  title        = {{The International Soil Moisture Network : Serving Earth system science for over a decade}},
  url          = {{http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/hess-25-5749-2021}},
  doi          = {{10.5194/hess-25-5749-2021}},
  volume       = {{25}},
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