Estimating leaf moisture content at global scale from passive microwave satellite observations of vegetation optical depth

<p>The moisture content of vegetation canopies controls various ecosystem processes such as plant productivity, transpiration, mortality, and flammability. Leaf moisture content (here defined as the ratio of leaf water mass to leaf dry biomass, or live-fuel moisture content, LFMC) is a vegetat...

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Main Authors: M. Forkel, L. Schmidt, R.-M. Zotta, W. Dorigo, M. Yebra
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Copernicus Publications 2023-01-01
Series:Hydrology and Earth System Sciences
Online Access:https://hess.copernicus.org/articles/27/39/2023/hess-27-39-2023.pdf