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description: 'Changes in annual surface soil moisture per year over the period 1988 to 2010 based on multi-satellite datasets. Surface soil moisture exhibits wetting trends in the Northeast, Florida, upper Midwest, and Northwest, and drying trends almost everywhere else. (Images provided by W. Dorigo<tbib>dcbcf1b2-fd1f-4565-a914-a045d60fe10f</tbib>).'
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