precipitation plays an important role in the global energy and water cycle. special interest in long-term precipitation analyses arises from the need to assess climate change and its impacts on all spatial scales. based on this demand national and international organization initiated and support many research and monitoring programs. there are a lot of centers developing gridded precipitation d...

[1] Global trends in a new multi-satellite surface soil moisture dataset were analyzed for the period 1988–2010. 27% of the area covered by the dataset showed significant trends (p = 0.05). Of these, 73% were negative and 27% positive. Subtle drying trends were found in the Southern US, central South America, central Eurasia, northern Africa and the Middle East, Mongolia and northeast China, no...

[1] Wetlands and surface waters are recognized to play important roles in climate, hydrologic and biogeochemical cycles, and availability of water resources. Until now, quantitative, global time series of spatial and temporal dynamics of inundation have been unavailable. This study presents the first global estimate of monthly inundated areas for 1993–2000. The data set is derived from a multis...

Abstract This study explores the possible drivers of recent Hadley circulation strengthening in modern reanalyses. Predominantly, two generations reanalyses provided by European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts are used: fifth-generation atmospheric reanalysis (ERA5) and interim (ERA-Interim). Some results also evaluated against other long-term To assess origins cell (HC) strength vari...