The study areas, the land cover types, and measurement sites in the Shandian River Basin and Naqu. The training sites are labeled with red, and the validation sites are marked with orange. Soil ...

Using state of the art techniques, researchers use vibrations from traffic to measure underground soil moisture. Caltech researchers have developed a new method to measure soil moisture in the shallow ...

A new research study by Harvard faculty is shedding light on the significant influence of water supply on global crop yields and its connection to climate change. The team — led by Harvard Earth and ...

Terrestrial water storage is the total amount of water stored on land, including ice, surface water, groundwater and soil moisture. Although short-term droughts are not unusual, recent studies ...

Caltech researchers have developed a new method to measure soil moisture in the shallow subterranean region between the surface and underground aquifers. This region, called the vadose zone, is ...