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1	P. de Rosnay, J.C. Calvet, Y. Kerr, J.P. Wigneron, F. Lemaitre, M.J. Escorihuela, J. Muñoz Sabater, and coauthors, 2006: “SMOSREX: A long term field campaign experiment   for soil moisture and land surface processes remote sensing”. Remote Sens. Environ., 102, 377-389.

  

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2	J. Muñoz Sabater, L. Jarlan, J.C. Calvet, 2007: “From near surface to root-zone soil moisture using different assimilation techniques”. Journal of Hydrometeorol., 8, 194-206,

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https://doi.org/10.1175/JHM571.1.

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J. Muñoz Sabater, C. Rüdiger, J.C. Calvet, L. Jarlan and Y. Kerr, 2008: “Joint assimilation of surface soil moisture and LAI observations using a simplified 1D-VAR; The SMOSREX case study”. Agricul. and Forest Meteorol., 148, 1362-1373, doi: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2008.04.003.

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4	M. Piles, M., Camps, bA., Vall-llossera, M., Monerris, A., Talone, M. and Muñoz Sabater, J., 2010: “Performance of Soil Moisture Retrieval Algorithms using Multi-angular L-band Brightness Temperatures”, Water Resour. Res., 46, W06506,

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https://doi.org/10.1029/2009WR008554.

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J. Muñoz Sabater, de Rosnay, P., and Balsamo, G., 2011: "Sensitivity of L-band NWP forward modelling to soil roughness”, Int. Journal of Remote Sens., 32 (19),5607-5620. doi: 10.1080/01431161.2010.507260

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C. Albergel, P. de Rosnay, C. Gruhier, J. Muñoz Sabater, S. Hasenauer, L. Isaksen, Y. Kerr and W. Wagner, 2012: “Evaluation of remotely sensed and modelled soil moisture products using global ground-based in-situ observations”, Remote Sens of Environ., 118, 215-226.

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https://doi.org/10.

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1016/j.rse.2011.11.017

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C. Albergel, P. de Rosnay, G. Balsamo, L. Isaksen, J. Muñoz-Sabater, 2012: “Soil Moisture Analyses at ECMWF: Evaluation Using Global Ground-Based In Situ Observations”. J. Hydrometeor, 13, 1442–1460. doi:10.1175/JHM-D-11-0107.1

 

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C. Albergel, G. Balsamo, P. de Rosnay, J. Muñoz-Sabater, and S. Boussetta, 2012: “A bare ground evaporation revision in the ECMWF land-surface scheme: evaluation of its impact using ground soil moisture and satellite microwave data”. Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 16, 3607-3620, 2012, doi:10.5194/hess-16-3607-2012

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9	J. Muñoz Sabater, Fouilloux. A. and de Rosnay, P., 2012: “Technical Implementation of SMOS Data in the ECMWF Integrated Forecasting System”, IEEE Geosc. and Remote Sens. Letters, 9(2), 252-256. doi:10.1109/LGRS.2011.2164777.

 

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C. Albergel, W. Dorigo, R. H. Reichle, G. Balsamo, P. de Rosnay, J. Muñoz-Sabater, L. Isaksen, R. de Jeu, and W. Wagner, 2013: "Skill and global trend analysis of soil moisture from reanalyses and microwave remote sensing", Journal of Hydrometeorol., 14, 1259-1277. doi:10.1175/JHM-D-12-0161.1

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C. Albergel, W. Dorigo , G. Balsamo, J. Muñoz-Sabater, P. de Rosnay, L. Isaksen, L. Brocca, R. de Jeu and W. Wagner, 2013: “Monitoring multi-decadal satellite earth observation of soil moisture products through land surface reanalyses”. Remote Sens. of Environ., 138, 77-89.

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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2013.07.009

 

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J. Muñoz-Sabater, P. de Rosnay, C. Jimenez, L. Isaksen and C. Albergel. 2014: “SMOS brightness temperatures angular noise: characterization, filtering and validation”. IEEE Trans. on Geosci. and Remote Sens., 52, (9), 5827-5839, doi: 10.1109/TGRS.2013.2293200.

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P. de Rosnay, G. Balsamo, C. Albergel, J. Muñoz Sabater and L. Isaksen, 2014: “Initialisation of land surface variables for Numerical Weather Prediction”, Survey in Geophysics, 35(3), pp 607-621. doi:10.1007/s10712-012-9207-x.

 

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A. Alyaari, JP. Wigneron, A. Ducharne, Y. Kerr, P. de Rosnay, R. de Jeu, A. Govind, A. Al Bitar, C. Albergel, J. Muñoz-Sabater, P. Richaume and A. Mialon, 2014: “Global-scale evaluation of two satellite-based passive microwave soil moisture datasets (SMOS and AMSR-E) with respect to Land Data Assimilation System estimates”. Remote Sens. of Environ. 149, pp 181-195, 2014,  doi: 10.1016/j.rse.2014.04.006

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G. Balsamo, C. Albergel, A. Beljaars, S. Boussetta, E. Brun, H. L. Cloke, D. Dee, E. Dutra, J. Muñoz-Sabater, F. Pappenberger, P. de Rosnay, T. Stockdale, and F. Vitart, 2015: “ERA-Interim/Land: A global land surface reanalysis data set“. Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 19, 389-407,

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https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-19-389-2015

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16	C. Albergel, E. Dutra, J. Muñoz-Sabater, T. Haiden, G. Balsamo, A. Beljaars, L. Isaksen , P. de Rosnay, I. Sandu and N. Wedi, 2015: “Soil temperature at ECMWF: an assessment using ground based observations”. J. Geophys. Res.

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17	N. Pierdicca, F. Fascetti, L. Pulvirenti, R. Crapolicchio and J. Muñoz-Sabater, 2015: "Quadruple collocation analysis for soil moisture product assessment". Geosc. and Remote Sensing Letters 12(8), 1595-1599. doi: 10.

1002/2014JD022505.
 

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J. Muñoz-Sabater, 2015: “Incorporation of passive microwave

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brightness temperatures in the ECMWF soil moisture analysis”. Remote

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2015, 7(5), 5758-5784;

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19	N. Pierdicca, F. Fascetti, L. Pulvirenti, R. Crapolicchio and J. Muñoz-Sabater, 2015:

"Quadruple collocation analysis for soil moisture product assessment". Geosc. and Remote Sensing Letters. In press.  

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 PDFNOTEJ. Muñoz-Sabater: “Impact of assimilating SMOS data in the forecast skill of surface and near-surface atmospheric variables”. In preparation for

“Analysis of ASCAT, SMOS, in-situ and land model soil moisture as a regionalized variable over Europe and North Africa”. Remote Sens. of Environ. 170, 280-289, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2015.09.005	Image Added	Draft version. Journal version available upon request
20	F. Fascetti, N. Pierdicca, L. Pulvirenti, R. Crapolicchio and J. Muñoz-Sabater, 2016: "A Comparison of ASCAT and SMOS Soil Moisture Retrievals Over Europe and Northern Africa from 2010 to 2013". Int. J. Appl. Earth Obs. Geoinf. 45, 135-142.doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jag.2015.09.008	Image Added	Post-refeering version. Journal version available upon request
21	Mecklenburg S., M. Drusch, L. Kaleschke, N. Rodriguez-Fernandez, N. Reul, Y. Kerr, J. Font, M. Martin-Neira, R. Oliva, E. Daganzo-Eusebio, J.P. Grant, R. Sabia, G. Macelloni, K. Rautiainen, J. Fauste, P. de Rosnay, J. Muñoz-Sabater, N. Verhoest, H. Lievens, S. Delwart, R. Crapolicchio, A. de la Fuente, M. Kornber, 2016: "ESA's Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity mission: From science to operational applications",  Remote Sens. of Environ. 180 , 3-18, 2016, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2015.12.025	Image Added	final draft post-refereeing version
22	J. Muñoz-Sabater,. Al Bitar and L. Brocca, 2016: "Soil Moisture Retrievals Based on Active and Passive Microwave Data: State-of-the-art and operational applications." In Satellite Soil Moisture Retrieval, Techniques and Applications. Elsevier publisher. ISBN: 978-0-12-803388-3	Image Added	revised proofs.
23	J.P. Wigneron, T.J. Jackson, P. O'Neill, G.J. De Lannoy, P. de Rosnay, J.P Walker, P. Ferrazzoli, V. Mironov, S. Bircher, J.P. Grant, M. Kurum, M. Schwank; J. Muñoz-Sabater, N. Das, A. Royer, A. Al-Yaari, A. Al Bitar, R. Fernandez-Moran, H. Lawrence, A. Mialon, M. Parrens, P. Richaume, S. Delwart, Y. Kerr, 2017: "Modelling the passive microwave signature from land surfaces: a review of recent results and application to the L-band SMOS & SMAP soil moisture retrieval algorithms". Remote Sens. Env. 192, pp. 238-262 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2017.01.024	Image Added	uncorrected proofs.
24	N. J. Rodriguez-Fernandez, J. Muñoz-Sabater, P. Richaume, P. de Rosnay, Y. H. Kerr, C. Albergel, M. Drusch and S. Mecklenburg, 2017: "SMOS near real time soil moisture product: processor overview and first validation results". Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci. 21, 5201-5216, 2017. https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-21-5201-2017	Image Added	accepted paper. Discussion paper at: http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/hess-2017-211
25	C. Albergel, E. Dutra, S. Munier, J.C. Calvet, J. Muñoz-Sabater, P. de Rosnay, G. Balsamo, 2018: "ERA-5 and ERA-Interim driven ISBA land surface model simulations: Which one performs better?". Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 22, 3515-3532, 2018. https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-22-3515-2018	Image Added	Published paper. Discussion paper at: https://www.hydrol-earth-syst-sci-discuss.net/hess-2018-117/
26	J. Muñoz-Sabater, P. de Rosnay, C. Albergel and L. Isaksen, 2018: "Sensitivity of soil moisture analyses to contrasting background and observation error scenarios". Water (Remote Sensing of Soil Moisture special issue), 10(7), 890, 2018. https://doi.org/10.3390/w10070890	Image Added	Published paper
27	G. Balsamo, A. Agustì-Panareda, C. Albergel, G. Arduini, A. Beljaars, J. Bidlot, N. Bousserez, S. Boussetta, A. Brown, R. Buizza, C. Buontempo, F. Chevallier, M. Choulga, H. Cloke, M. Cronin, M. Dahoui, P. de Rosnay, P. Dirmeyer, M. Drusch, E. Dutra, M. Ek, P. Gentine, H. Hewitt, S. Keeley, Y. Kerr, S. Kumar, C. Lupu, J.F. Mahfouf, J. McNorton, S. Mecklenburg, K. Mogensen, J. Muñoz-Sabater, R. Orth, F. Rabier, R. Reichle, B. Ruston, F. Pappenberger, I. Sandu, S. Seneviratne, S. Tietsche, I. Trigo, R. Uijlenhoet, N. Wedi, R.I. Woolway, X. Zeng, 2018: "Satellite and in situ observations for advancing global Earth surface modelling: a review". Remote Sens. 2018, 10, 2038. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs10122038	Image Added	Published paper
28	M. Piles, J. Ballabrera-Poy and J. Muñoz-Sabater, 2019: "Dominant Features of Global Surface Soil Moisture Variability observed by the SMOS satellite". Remote Sens. 2019, 11(1), 95; https://doi.org/10.3390/rs11010095	Image Added	Published paper
29	C. Albergel, E. Dutra, B. Bonan, Y. Zheng, S. Munier, G. Balsamo, P. de Rosnay, J. Muñoz-Sabater and J.-C. Calvet, 2019: "Monitoring and Forecasting the Impact of the 2018 Summer Heatwave on Vegetation". Remote Sens. 2019, 11(5), 520; https://doi.org/10.3390/rs11050520	Image Added	Reviewed version
30	E. Zsoter, H. Cloke, E. Stephens, P. de Rosnay, J. Muñoz-Sabater, C. Prudhomme, F. Pappenberger, 2018: "How well do operational Numerical Weather Prediction configurations represent hydrology?". J. Hydrometeor., 20, 1533–1552, https://doi.org/10.1175/JHM-D-18-0086.1	Image Added	first online version
31	A. Agustí-Panareda, M. Diamantakis, S. Massart, F. Chevallier, J. Muñoz-Sabater, J. Barré, R. Curcoll, R. Engelen, B. Langerock, R. Law, Z. Loh, J. Morguí, M. Parrington, V.-H. Peuch, M. Ramonet, C. Roehl, A. Vermeulen, T. Warneke, P. Wennberg and D. Wunch, 2019: "Modelling CO2 weather – why horizontal resolution matters." Atmos. Chem. Phys., 19, 7347–7376, 2019. https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-7347-2019	Image Added	Post-refeering, proof-reading version
32	J. Muñoz-Sabater, H. Lawrence, C. Albergel, P. de Rosnay, L. Isaksen, S. Mecklenburg, Y. Kerr and M. Drusch, 2019: "Assimilation of SMOS brightness temperatures in the ECMWF Integrated Forecasting System". Quart. J. Roy. Meteor. Soc., 2019, 145, issue 723, pp. 2524-2548. https://doi.org/10.1002/qj.3577	Image Added	Post-refeering, accepted article
33	P. de Rosnay, J. Muñoz-Sabater, C. Albergel, L. Isaksen, M. Drusch, J.P. Wigneron, 2020: “SMOS brightness temperatures forward modelling, bias correction and long term monitoring at ECMWF". Remote Sens. Env., 237, 111424. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2019.111424.	Image Added	Reviewed version
34	E. Dutra, J. Muñoz-Sabater, S. Boussetta, T. Komori, S. Hirahara and G. Balsamo, 2020: "Land surface downscaling of ERA5 and the role of the lapse rate correction: An application to ERA5."  Earth and Space Science,  7(5), e2019EA000984. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019EA000984.	Image Added	Published article
35	A. Gruber, C. Albergel, S. Alemohammad, A. Al-Yaari, L. Brocca, J.-C. Calvet, A. Colliander, M. Cosh, W. Crow, W. Dorigo, C. Draper, M. Hirschi, T. Jackson, Y. Kerr, A. Konings, W. Lahoz, G. De Lannoy, K. McColl, J. Muñoz-Sabater, N. Nicolai-Shaw, J. Peng, R. Reichle, P. Richaume, C. Ruediger, T. Scanlon, R. van der Schalie, W. Wagner et al., 2020: "Validation practices for satellite soil moisture products - What are (the) errors?. Remote Sens. Env., 244 (2020) 11806 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2020.111806	Image Added	Submitted article
36	H. Hersbach, B. Bell, P. Berrisford, A. Horanyi, J. Muñoz-Sabater, J. Nicolas, C. Peubey, R. Radu, I. Rozum, D. Schepers, A. Simmons, C. Soci, F. Vamborg, S. Abdalla, G. Balsamo, P. Bechtold, J. Bidlot, M. Bonavita, G. De Chiara, P. Dahlgren, D. Dee, R. Dragani, M. Diamantakis, J. Flemming, R. Forbes, A.  Geer, E. Holm, L. Haimberger, R. Hogan, M. Janiskova, P. Laloyaux, P. Lopez, P. de Rosnay, J.N. Thépaut, S. Villaume, 2020: "The ERA5 Global Reanalysis"

Quat. Journal of the Royal Met. Society, 2020;1–51. https://doi.org/10.1002/qj.3803	Image Added	Submitted version
37	B. Martens, D. L. Schumacher, H. Wouters, J. Muñoz-Sabater, N. Verhoest and D.G. Miralles, 2020: "Evaluating the surface energy partitioning in ERA5". Geoscientific Model Development, 13, 4159–4181. https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-2019-315	Image Added	Preprint
38	J. Sánchez-Zapero, F. Camacho, E. Martínez, R. Lacaze, D. Carrer, F. Pinault, I. Benhadj and J. Muñoz-Sabater, 2020: "Quality Assessment of PROBA-V Surface Albedo V1 for the continuity of the Copernicus Climate Change Service". Remote Sens. 2020, 12(16), 2596; https://doi.org/10.3390/rs12162596	Image Added	Published article
39	W.T. Crow, C. Arroyo Gomez, J. Muñoz-Sabater, T. Holmes, C. Hain, F. Lei, J. Dong, J. Alfieri and M. Anderson, 2020: "Soil moisture/evapotranspiration over-coupling and L-band brightness temperature assimilation: sources and forecast implications". J. Hydrometeor, 21(10), 2359-2374  https://doi.org/10.1175/JHM-D-20-0088.1	Image Added	Early online release

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40	C. Albergel, Y. Zheng, B. Bonan, E. Dutra, N. Rodríguez-Fernández, S. Munier, C. Draper, P. de Rosnay, J. Muñoz-Sabater, G. Balsamo, D. Fairbairn, C. Meurey, J.-C. Calvet, 2020: "Data assimilation for continuous global assessment of severe conditions over terrestrial surfaces".  Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 24, 4291-4316. https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-24-4291-2020	Image Added	Published article
41	D. Carrer, F. Pinault, G. Lellouch, I. F. Trigo, I. Benhadj, F. Camacho, X. Ceamanos, S. Moparthy, J. Muñoz-

Sabater and E. López-Baeza: “Soil moisture climatology from ERA-Interim and remote sensing data in the Jucar River Basin”. In preparation for Remote Sens. Env.  JP Wigneron, Y. Kerr, T. Jackson, P. O’Neill, G. De Lannoy, N. Das, M. Kurum, J. Walker, P. Ferrazzoli, M. Schwank, P. de Rosnay, C Albergel, V Mironov, J. Muñoz-Sabater, A. Royer, A. Al-Yaari A., A. Al Bitar, S. Bircher, R. Fernandez-Moran, A. Mialon, M. Parrens,

Sabater, L. Schueller, J. Sánchez-Zapero, 2021: "Surface albedo retrieval from 40-years of Earth observations through the EUMETSAT/LSA SAF and EU/C3S programmes: the versatile algorithm of Pyalus". Remote Sens., 13, 372. . https://doi.org/10.3390/rs13030372	Image Added	Published article
42	S. Boussetta, G. Balsamo, G. Arduini, E. Dutra, J. McNorton, M. Choulga, A. Agustí-Panareda, A. Beljaars, N. Wedi, J. Muñoz-Sabater, P. de Rosnay, I. Sandu, I. Hadade, G. Carver, C. Mazzetti, C. Prudhomme, D. Yamazaki, E. Zsoter, 2021: "ECLand: The ECMWF land surface modelling system". Atmosphere, 12(6), 723. https://doi.org/10.3390/atmos12060723	Image Added	Published article
43	J. Muñoz-Sabater, Dutra, E., Agustí-Panareda, A., Albergel, C., Arduini, G., Balsamo, G., Boussetta, S., Choulga, M., Harrigan, S., Hersbach, H., Martens, B., Miralles, D. G., Piles, M., Rodríguez-Fernández, N. J., Zsoter, E., Buontempo, C., and Thépaut, J.-N.: ERA5-Land, 2021: A state-of-the-art global reanalysis dataset for land applications, Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 13, 4349–4383, 2021. https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-13-4349-2021	Image Added	Published article
44	B. Bell, H. Hersbach, A. Simmons, P. Berrisford, P. Dahlgren, A. Horányi, J. Muñoz-Sabater, J. Nicolas, R. Radu, D. Schepers, C. Soci, S.Villaume, J.R.Bidlot, L. Haimberger, J. Woollen, C. Buontempo, and J-N. Thépaut, 2021: "The ERA5 Global Reanalysis: Extension to 1950", Quat. Journal of the Royal Met. Society, 147(741), 4186– 4227. https://doi.org/10.1002/qj.4174	Image Added	Published article
45	T. Lavergne, S. Kern, S. Aaboe, L. Derby, G. Dybkjaer, G. Garric, P. Heil, S. Hendricks, J. Holfort, S. Howell, J. Key, J.L. Lieser, T. Maksym, W. Maslowski, W. Meier, J. Muñoz-Sabater, J. Nicolas, B. Özsoy, B. Rabe, W. Rack, M. Raphael, P. de Rosnay, V. Smolyanitsky, S. Tietsche,J. Ukita, M. Vichi, P. Wagner, S. Willmes  and X. Zhao, 2022: "A New Structure for the Sea Ice Essential Climate Variables of the Global Climate Observing System".  Bull. Am. Meteorol. Soc., https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-21-0227.1	Image Added	published article
46	C. Buontempo, S. N. Burgess, D. Dee, B. Pinty, J.N. Thépaut, M. Rixen, S. Almond, D. Armstrong, A. Brookshaw, A. Lopez Alos, B. Bell, C. Bergeron, C. Cagnazzo, E. Comyn-Platt, E. Damasio-Da-Costa, A. Guillory, H. Hersbach, A. Horanyi, J. Nicolas, A. Obregon, E. Penabad Ramos, B. Raoult, J. Muñoz-Sabater, A. Simmons, C. Soci, M. Suttie, F. Vamborg, J. Varndell, S. Vermoote, X. Yang, J. Garcés de Marcilla: "The Copernicus Climate Change Service: Climate Science in Action".  Bull. Am. Meteorol. Soc., https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-21-0315.1	Image Added	published article
47	J. Sánchez-Zapero, F. Camacho, E. Martínez-Sánchez, J. Gorroño, J. León-Tavares, I. Benhadj, C. Toté, E. Swinnen, J. Muñoz-Sabater, 2023: "Global estimates of surface albedo from Sentinel-3 OLCI and SLSTR data for Copernicus Climate Change Service: Algorithm and preliminary validation". Remote Sens. Env., 287, 113460, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2023.113460	Image Added	submitted version
48	G. Duveiller, M. Pickering, J. Muñoz-Sabater, L. Caporaso, S. Boussetta, G. Balsamo, A. Cescatti, 2023: "Getting the leaves right matters for estimating temperature extreme". Geoscientific Model Development, 16(24), pp. 7357-7373, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-16-7357-2023	Image Added	published article

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