Chapter 1 Foreword: International Space Science Institute (ISSI) Workshop on the Earth’s Hydrological Cycle

Chapter 2 Review of Understanding of Earth’s Hydrological Cycle: Observations, Theory and Modelling

Chapter 3 Challenges and Opportunities in Water Cycle Research: WCRP Contributions

Chapter 5 Quantifying and Reducing Uncertainty in the Large-Scale Response of the Water Cycle

Chapter 6 Connecting Satellite Observations with Water Cycle Variables Through Land Data Assimilation: Examples Using the NASA GEOS-5 LDAS

Chapter 7 Initialisation of Land Surface Variables for Numerical Weather Prediction

Chapter 8 Closing the Gaps in Our Knowledge of the Hydrological Cycle over Land: Conceptual Problems

Chapter 9 Toward Improved Estimation of the Dynamic Topography and Ocean Circulation in the High Latitude and Arctic Ocean: The Importance of GOCE

Chapter 10 Sea Surface Salinity Observations from Space with the SMOS Satellite: A New Means to Monitor the Marine Branch of the Water Cycle

Chapter 11 Role of Ocean in the Variability of Indian Summer Monsoon Rainfall

Chapter 12 Perspectives in Modelling Climate–Hydrology Interactions

Chapter 13 Downscaling Satellite Precipitation with Emphasis on Extremes: A Variational ℓ 1 -Norm Regularization in the Derivative Domain

Chapter 14 Global Snow Mass Measurements and the Effect of Stratigraphic Detail on Inversion of Microwave Brightness Temperatures

Chapter 15 Glaciers in the Earth’s Hydrological Cycle: Assessments of Glacier Mass and Runoff Changes on Global and Regional Scales

Chapter 16 Observing Global Surface Water Flood Dynamics

Chapter 17 Arctic Climate and Water Change: Model and Observation Relevance for Assessment and Adaptation

Chapter 18 Irrigation Effects on Hydro-Climatic Change: Basin-Wise Water Balance-Constrained Quantification and Cross-Regional Comparison