TY  - JOUR
AU  - Dorigo, Wouter
AU  - Himmelbauer, Irene
AU  - Aberer, Daniel
AU  - Schremmer, Lukas
AU  - Petrakovic, Ivana
AU  - Zappa, Luca
AU  - Preimesberger, Wolfgang
AU  - Xaver, Angelika
AU  - Annor, Frank
AU  - Ardö, Jonas
AU  - Baldocchi, Dennis
AU  - Bitelli, Marco
AU  - Blöschl, Günter
AU  - Bogena, Heye
AU  - Brocca, Luca
AU  - Calvet, Jean-Christophe
AU  - Camarero, J. Julio
AU  - Capello, Giorgio
AU  - Choi, Minha
AU  - Cosh, Michael C.
AU  - van de Giesen, Nick
AU  - Hajdu, Istvan
AU  - Ikonen, Jaakko
AU  - Jensen, Karsten H.
AU  - Kanniah, Kasturi Devi
AU  - de Kat, Ileen
AU  - Kirchengast, Gottfried
AU  - Kumar Rai, Pankaj
AU  - Kyrouac, Jenni
AU  - Larson, Kristine
AU  - Liu, Suxia
AU  - Loew, Alexander
AU  - Moghaddam, Mahta
AU  - Martínez Fernández, José
AU  - Mattar Bader, Cristian
AU  - Morbidelli, Renato
AU  - Musial, Jan P.
AU  - Osenga, Elise
AU  - Palecki, Michael A.
AU  - Pellarin, Thierry
AU  - Petropoulous, George P.
AU  - Pfeil, Isabella
AU  - Powers, Jarrett
AU  - Robock, Alan
AU  - Rüdiger, Christoph
AU  - Rummel, Udo
AU  - Strobel, Michael
AU  - Su, Zhongbo
AU  - Sullivan, Ryan
AU  - Tagesson, Torbern
AU  - Varlagin, Andrej
AU  - Vreugdenhil, Mariette
AU  - Walker, Jeffrey
AU  - Wen, Jun
AU  - Wenger, Fred
AU  - Wigneron, Jean Pierre
AU  - Woods, Mel
AU  - Yang, Kun
AU  - Zeng, Yijian
AU  - Zhang, Xiang
AU  - Zreda, Marek
AU  - Dietrich, Stephan
AU  - Gruber, Alexander
AU  - van Oevelen, Peter
AU  - Wagner, Wolfgang
AU  - Scipal, Klaus
AU  - Drusch, Matthias
AU  - Sabia, Roberto
TI  - The International Soil Moisture Network: serving Earth system science for over a decade
JO  - Hydrology and earth system sciences
VL  - 25
IS  - 11
SN  - 1607-7938
CY  - Katlenburg-Lindau
PB  - EGU
M1  - FZJ-2021-04178
SP  - 5749 - 5804
PY  - 2021
AB  - 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., 2011b, a). 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.
LB  - PUB:(DE-HGF)16
UR  - <Go to ISI:>//WOS:000716459500001
DO  - DOI:10.5194/hess-25-5749-2021
UR  - https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/902321
ER  -