An updated treatment of soil texture and associated hydraulic properties in a global land modeling system Gabriëlle J. M. De Lannoy, Randal D. Koster, Rolf H. Reichle, Sarith P. P. Mahanama, and Qing Liu https://doi.org/10.1002/2014MS000330

MERRA- 2 tavg1_2d_slv_Nx: 2d,1-Hourly,Time-Averaged,Single-Level,Assimilation,Single-Level Diagnostics V5.12.4 (https://disc.gsfc.nasa.gov/datasets?project=MERRA-2) Global Modeling and Assimilation Office (GMAO) https://doi.org/10.5067/VJAFPLI1CSIV

MERRA-2 tavg1_2d_lnd_Nx: 2d,1-Hourly,Time-Averaged,Single-Level,Assimilation,Land Surface Diagnostics V5.12.4 (https://disc.gsfc.nasa.gov/datasets?project=MERRA-2) Global Modeling and Assimilation Office (GMAO) https://doi.org/10.5067/RKPHT8KC1Y1T

Harmonized World Soil Database v 1.2 FAO/IIASA/ISRIC/ISSCAS/JRC http://www.fao.org/soils-portal/data-hub/soil-maps-and-databases/harmonized-world-soil-database-v12/en/

CORINE land cover (CLC) 2012 Copernicus Land Monitoring Service https://land.copernicus.eu/pan-european/corine-land-cover/clc-2012?tab=mapview

Dry matter productivity 1km product version 2 Copernicus Global Land Service https://land.copernicus.eu/global/products/dmp

Surface soil moisture Copernicus Global Land Service https://land.copernicus.eu/global/products/ssm

SMAP Enhanced L2 Radiometer Half-Orbit 9 km EASE-Grid Soil Moisture, Version 4 (https://nsidc.org/data/SPL2SMP_E/versions/4) P. E. O'Neill, S. Chan, E. G. Njoku, T. Jackson, R. Bindlish, and J. Chaubell https://doi.org/10.5067/Q8J8E3A89923

International Soil Moisture Network GEWEX/CEOS/GCOS-TOPC/GEO/GTN-H https://ismn.geo.tuwien.ac.at/en/

CCI soil moisture assessment with smos soil moisture and in situ data under different environmental conditions and spatial scales in Spain Á. González-Zamora, N. Sánchez, M.Pablos, and J. Martínez-Fernández https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2018.02.010

In situ soil moisture observations for the CAL/VAL of SMOS: the SMOSMANIA network Jean-Christophe Calvet, Noureddine Fritz, Francis Froissard, David Suquia, Alain Petitpa, and Bruno Piguet https://doi.org/10.1109/IGARSS.2007.4423019

A Network of Terrestrial Environmental Observatories in Germany Steffen Zacharias, Heye Bogena, Luis Samaniego, Matthias Mauder, Roland Fuß, Thomas Pütz, Mark Frenzel, Mike Schwank, Cornelia Baessler, Klaus Butterbach-Bahl, Oliver Bens, Erik Borg, Achim Brauer, Peter Dietrich, Irena Hajnsek, Gerhard Helle, Ralf Kiese, Harald Kunstmann, Stefan Klotz, Jean Charles Munch, Hans Papen, Eckart Priesack, Hans Peter Schmid, Rainer Steinbrecher, Ulrike Rosenbaum, Georg Teutsch, and Harry Vereecken https://doi.org/10.2136/vzj2010.0139

HOBE: The Danish hydrological observatory Karsten H. Jensen and Jens Christian Refsgaard https://doi.org/10.2136/vzj2018.03.0059

Global Map of Irrigation Areas version 5 Stefan Siebert, Verena Henrich, Karen Frenken and Jacob Burke https://www.fao.org/aquastat/en/geospatial-information/global-maps-irrigated-areas/latest-version/

source code and datasets for gmd-2021-98 Shannon de Roos, Gabriëlle De Lannoy, and Dirk Raes https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4770738