Acknowledgement
We acknowledge the European Space Agency for the SAR Sentinel-1 dataset, the European Centre for Medium-range Weather Forecasts and the Copernicus Climate Change Service for the ERA5-Land dataset, the Korea Meteorological Administration for the AWS rain gauge dataset, and the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, USA for the GCLC product.
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