Floods and Droughts
SMAP Data Used For Operational Drought Extent and Recovery Assessment
SMAP provides new capacity for effective flood monitoring and forecasts over Africa
Global Surface Soil Moisture Drydown Patterns
Global Flash Drought Monitoring Using SMAP Soil Moisture
Global Ecology and Agroecosystems
Crop Yields Tracked From SMAP Vegetation Water Content Retrievals
Moisture Pulse-Reserve in the Soil-Plant Continuum Observed Across Biomes
SMAP Freeze/Thaw Data Record Explains Year-to-Year Variations in Net Land Carbon Source/Sink
Soil respiration is strongly reducing the Arctic-boreal carbon sink for atmospheric CO
Recent Siberian heatwave increased spring CO2 uptake but not annual CO2 uptake
SMAP reveals widespread dryland productivity losses from the 2020 Southwest US hot drought
Ocean Applications
SMAP Radiometer Measurements Track Tropical Cyclone Intensity and Size
Land Soil Moisture and Gulf Salinity Dynamics Linked Through SMAP Measurements
SMAP Tracks Freshening During the 2014–2016 Northeast Pacific Warm Anomaly
How close to the ice edge can we retrieve sea surface salinity from SMAP?
Science Data Products
SMAP Products Ranks Best Out of 18 Satellite- and Model-based Research and Operational Products
SMAP Reveals Seasonal Cycle of Radio Frequency Interference in China
Evaluation of Three Global Soil Moisture Products Using Triple Collocation Shows SMAP Superior
Global Assessment of Added Value in the SMAP Level-4 Soil Moisture (L4_SM) Product
SMAP Soil Moisture Improves Determination of Global Evapotranspiration
Version 4 of the SMAP Level-4 Soil Moisture Algorithm and Data Product
Multiscale Big Data Soil Moisture Fusion
Water and Energy Cycle
Landscape Water Balance Closure is Represented by the Combination of SMAP and GPM Data
Shifts in the Dominant Hydrologic Regimes Detected by SMAP
SMAP Enables First Observations-Driven Global Maps of Water Fluxes Over Land
SMAP Reveals How Soil Moisture Links the Water-Energy-Carbon Cycles
SMAP Observations of the Surface Reveal Hidden Subsurface Processes Below
The Elasticity of the Water Cycle under Climate Change
Soil Moisture Plays a Disproportionate Role in Global Water Cycle