Publications

• 2024. Szczykulska, M.,  Huntingford , C., Cooper, E., and Evans, J.G., Future increases in soil moisture drought frequency at UK monitoring sites: merging the JULES land model with observations and convection-permitting UK climate projections (2024-09-05). Environ. Res. Lett. 19 104024, doi: 10.1088/1748-9326/ad7045
• 2024. Cooper, E., Charlton‐Perez, C., and Ellis, R., Comparison of Met Office regional model soil moisture with COSMOS‐UK field‐scale in situ observations. Atmospheric Science Letters, 25 (8), e1236. 10, pp. https://doi.org/10.1002/asl.1236
• 2023. Tso, C-H.M., Blyth, E., Tanguy, M., Levy, P.E., Robinson, E.L., Bell, V., Zha, Y., and Fry, M., Multiproduct characterization of surface soil moisture drydowns in the United Kingdom. Journal of Hydrometeorology, 24 (12). 2299-2319. https://doi.org/10.1175/JHM-D-23-0018.1
• 2023. Scheiffele, L.M., Schrön, M., Köhli, M., Dimitrova-Petrova, K., Altdorff, D., Franz, T., Rosolem, R., Evans, J., Blake, J., Bogena, H., McJannet, D., Baroni, G., Desilets, D., and Oswald, S.E., Comment on ‘Examining the variation of soil moisture from cosmic-ray neutron probes footprint: experimental results from a COSMOS-UK site’ by Howells, O.D., Petropoulos, G.P., et al., Environ Earth Sci 82, 41 (2023). Environmental Earth Sciences, 82 (20), 474. 5, pp. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12665-023-11186-6
• 2021. Hands, A.D.P., Baird, F., Ryden, K.A., Dyer, C.S., Lei, F., Evans, J.G., Wallbank, J.R., Szczykulska, M., Rylett, D., Rosolem, R., Fowler, S., Power, D., and Henley, E.M., Detecting ground level enhancements using soil moisture sensor networks.  Space Weather, 19 (8), e2021SW002800. 37, pp. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021SW002800
• 2021. Beale, J., Waine, T., Evans J., and Corstanje, R., A Method to Assess the Performance of SAR-Derived Surface Soil Moisture Products. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, 14,  4504 - 4516, doi: 10.1109/JSTARS.2021.3071380.
• 2021. Wallbank, J.R., Cole, S.J., Moore, R.J. , Anderson, S.R. , and Mellor, E.J., Estimating snow water equivalent using cosmic-ray neutron sensors from the COSMOS-UK network. Hydrological Processes, 35, e14048, DOI: 10.1002/hyp.14048
• 2021. Cooper, E., Blyth, E., Cooper, H., Ellis, R., Pinnington, E., and Dadson, S. J., Using data assimilation to optimize pedotransfer functions using field-scale in situ soil moisture observations. Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 25, 2445–2458, doi: 10.5194/hess-25-2445-2021
• 2021. Cooper, H. M., Bennett, E., Blake, J., Blyth, E., Boorman, D., Cooper, E., Evans, J., Fry, M., Jenkins, A., Morrison, R., Rylett, D., Stanley, S., Szczykulska, M., Trill, E., Antoniou, V., Askquith-Ellis, A., Ball, L., Brooks, M., Clarke, M. A., Cowan, N., Cumming, A., Farrand, P., Hitt, O., Lord, W., Scarlett, P., Swain, O., Thornton, J., Warwick, A., and Winterbourn, B., COSMOS-UK: national soil moisture and hydrometeorology data for environmental science research. Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 13, 1737–1757, doi: 10.5194/essd-13-1737-2021
• 2021. Dirmeyer, P. A., Balsamo, G., Blyth, E. M., Morrison, R., and Cooper, H. M., Land‐atmosphere interactions exacerbated the drought and heatwave over northern Europe during summer 2018.  AGU Advances, 2, e2020AV000283, doi: 10.1029/2020AV000283
• 2021. Pinnington, E., Amezcua, J., Cooper, E., Dadson, S., Ellis, R., Peng, J., Robinson, E., Morrison, R., Osborne, S., and Quaife, T., Improving soil moisture prediction of a high-resolution land surface model by parameterising pedotransfer functions through assimilation of SMAP satellite data. Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 25, 1617–1641, doi: 10.5194/hess-25-1617-2021
• 2020. Chivers, B.D., Wallbank, J., Cole, S.J., Sebek, O., Stanley, S., Fry, M., and Leontidis, G., Imputation of missing sub-hourly precipitation data in a large sensor network: a machine learning approach. Journal of Hydrology, 588, 125126. 12, pp. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2020.125126
• 2017. Ragab, R., Evans, J.G., Battilani, A., Solimando, D., The Cosmic-ray Soil Moisture Observation System (Cosmos) for estimating the crop water requirement: new approach. Irrigation and Drainage, 66 (4). 456-468. https://doi.org/10.1002/ird.2152
• 2016. Evans, J. G., Ward, H. C., Blake, J. R., Hewitt, E. J., Morrison, R., Fry, M., Ball, L. A., Doughty, L. C., Libre, J. W., Hitt, O. E., Rylett, D., Ellis, R. J., Warwick, A. C., Brooks, M., Parkes, M. A., Wright, G. M. H., Singer, A. C., Boorman, D. B., and Jenkins, A., Soil water content in southern England derived from a cosmic-ray soil moisture observing system – COSMOS-UK. Hydrol. Process., doi: 10.1002/hyp.10929.
• 2014. Fry, Matthew J.; Evans, Jonathan; Ward, Helen; Blake, James; Ball, Lucy; and Doughty, Louisa, The Provision Of Data From The COSMOS-UK Soil Moisture Monitoring Network. International Conference on Hydroinformatics. Paper 56. http://academicworks.cuny.edu/cc_conf_hic/56

• Jonathan Evans and Magdalena Szczykulska. 2022 COSMOS-UK: the UK national soil moisture measurement network – surface observations for EO Cal/Val applications. [Speech] In: The UK National Earth Observation Conference 2022, Leicester, 6-8 Sept 2022.
• Tim Howson, Sadra Emamalizadeh, Jonathan Evans, Gabriele Baroni, and Philip Vincent. 2024 Harmonising CRNS and point-scale soil moisture data using Hydrus-1D.

Smith, R., Antoniou, V., Askquith-Ellis, A., Ball, L.A., Bennett, E.S., Blake, J.R., Boorman, D.B., Brooks, M., Clarke, M., Cooper, H.M., Cowan, N., Cumming, A., Evans, J.G., Farrand, P., Fry, M., Harvey, D., Houghton-Carr, H., Howson, T., Jiménez-Arranz, G., Keen, Y., Khamis, D., Leeson, S., Lord, W.D., Morrison, R., Nash, G.V., O'Callaghan, F., Rylett, D., Scarlett, P.M., St Quintin, P., Stanley, S., Swain, O.D., Szczykulska, M., Teagle, S., Thornton, J.L., Trill, E.J., Vincent, P., Ward, H.C., Warwick, A.C., Winterbourn, J.B. (2024). Daily and sub-daily hydrometeorological and soil data (2013-2023) [COSMOS-UK]. NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre. (Dataset). https://doi.org/10.5285/399ed9b1-bf59-4d85-9832-ee4d29f49bfb

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