Advances in Soil Moisture Dynamics across Scales
A special issue of Hydrology (ISSN 2306-5338). This special issue belongs to the section "Soil and Hydrology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (29 May 2023) | Viewed by 3264
Special Issue Editors
Interests: evapotranspiration; soil moisture; remote sensing; groundwater; energy balance; automatic weather station and soil moisture; machine learning, flood forecast, climate change impacts, drought
Interests: sustainable systems engineering; artificial intelligence; satellite remote sensing; climate change; hydroinformatics
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Dear Colleagues,
Soil moisture plays a key role in the distribution of water, energy, and carbon interactions between the land and atmosphere system. Detailed information on soil moisture is essential for water resources and natural hazard risk assessment, management, and understanding of ecosystem dynamics, among others.
Soil moisture hotspots that emerge from this spatial variability have significant implications for the scientific understanding and prediction of many hydrological processes and applications. For example, soil moisture hotspots influence freshwater sources and the water footprint, as wet and dry conditions require different irrigation and fertilizer interventions. However, soil moisture varies strongly in space, from a few centimeters to several kilometers depending on the basin scale.
Soil moisture spatial variability leads to changes in land surface temperature and the evapotranspiration process altering drought impacts controlling cloud formation and the development of convective storms. Soil moisture hotspots can modify runoff generation, resulting in faster flood events and landslides. The analysis of soil moisture spatial variability and the effects on the water cycle will be covered in this Special Issue.
Although significant progress has been made in recent decades, the study of this key variable of the water cycle is still important if, for example, the gaps in subsurface soil moisture calculation and the coarse spatial resolution of soil moisture satellite missions are considered.
Articles may address, but are not limited to, the following topics:
- Signatures of large-scale soil moisture dynamics on basins and at the local scale.
- Instrumentation–installation–temporal resolution errors.
- Machine learning for soil moisture assessment.
- Soil moisture monitoring by implementing satellite (polar and geostationary) data.
- Soil moisture estimation using the gravimetric technique.
- Impact of soil moisture on the global economy.
- Soil moisture and expectations regarding future climate.
- Significance of soil moisture in the economics of climate change impacts and adaptation on hydrological basins or the economy within soil moisture.
- Soil moisture dynamics in agriculture.
- Application of remote sensing to estimate soil moisture.
- Spatial and temporal analysis of soil moisture patterns.
- Effect of soil organic matter contents on moisture supply capacities.
- Dynamics of soil moisture balance components.
- Relationship between soil moisture and the productivity of natural vegetation.
- Role of soil moisture sensors in smart irrigation.
- Soil moisture sensors and precision agriculture.
- Evaluation of soil moisture anomalies.
- Geophysical measuring in dry and wet soil conditions.
- Assessing surface and root zone soil moisture for agricultural purposes.
- Climate change and soil moisture variability dynamics.
- Importance of soil moisture dynamics in ecohydrology.
- Investigations of vegetation–soil moisture feedback.
- Effect of elevated CO2 on soil moisture dynamics.
- Modeling soil moisture dynamics and runoff for hillslopes.
- Hydrological response of watersheds to soil moisture dynamics.
- Precipitation, soil moisture, and evapotranspiration chain.
- Soil moisture and plant stress dynamics.
- Analyzing soil moisture variations using big data.
- Importance of groundwater resources on soil moisture dynamics.
- Simulation of soil moisture variations in geosciences.
- Global and regional sensitive analysis of factors influencing soil moisture dynamics.
- Modern algorithms to predict soil moisture dynamics.
- Role of water–energy balance on soil moisture dynamics.
- Using isotopes as tracers of soil moisture dynamics.
- The ability of climate reanalysis and land surface models to capture soil moisture dynamics.
- Monitoring soil moisture dynamics toward sustainable development.
Dr. Raúl Rivas
Dr. Mohammad Valipour
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- multi-scale
- machine learning
- satellite data VIS-NIR-SWIR-TIR-SAR
- soil use
- flood
- drought forecast
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