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ESA Soil Moisture Climate Change Initiative (Soil_Moisture_cci): 'Active' Product, Version 02.2

Update Frequency: Not Planned
Latest Data Update: 2016-03-07
Status: Superseded
Online Status: ONLINE
Publication State: Published
Publication Date: 2016-03-08
Download Stats: last 12 months
Dataset Size: 8.55K Files | 4GB
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Abstract

The Soil Moisture CCI 'Active' dataset is one of the three datasets created as part of the European Space Agency's (ESA) Soil Moisture Essential Climate Variable (ECV) CCI project. The product has been created by fusing scatterometer soil moisture products, derived from the instruments AMI-WS and ASCAT. 'Passive' and 'Combined' products have also been created. The 'Passive' product is a fusion of radiometer data acquired by the SMMR, SSM/I, TMI, AMSR-E, WindSat, and AMSR2 satellite instruments. The 'Combined Product' is then a blended product based on the former two data sets.

The v02.2 Active product, provided as global daily images in NetCDF-4 classic file format, presents a global coverage of surface soil moisture at a spatial resolution of 0.25 degrees. It covers the period 1991-08-05 to 2014-12-31 and is expressed in percent of saturation [%]. For information regarding the theoretical and algorithmic base of the product, please see the Algorithm Theoretical Baseline Document version 2.0 or the paper by Wagner 2012, both available in the documentation section. Other additional reference documents and information relating to the dataset can also be found on the CCI Soil Moisture project web site or within the Product Specification Document.

The data set should be cited using all three of the following references:
1. Liu, Y. Y., W. A. Dorigo, et al. (2012). "Trend-preserving blending of passive and active microwave soil moisture retrievals." Remote Sensing of Environment 123: 280-297.
2. Liu, Y. Y., Parinussa, R. M., Dorigo, W. A., De Jeu, R. A. M., Wagner, W., van Dijk, A. I. J. M., McCabe, M. F., Evans, J. P. (2011). Developing an improved soil moisture dataset by blending passive and active microwave satellite-based retrievals. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 15, 425-436
3. Wagner, W., W. Dorigo, R. de Jeu, D. Fernandez, J. Benveniste, E. Haas, M. Ertl (2012). Fusion of active and passive microwave observations to create an Essential Climate Variable data record on soil moisture. ISPRS Annals of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences (ISPRS Annals), Volume I-7, XXII ISPRS Congress, Melbourne, Australia, 25 August-1 September 2012, 315-321

Citable as:  Wagner, W.; Dorigo, W.; Chung, D.; Gruber, A.; Hahn, S.; Kidd, R.; Liu, Y.Y.; Mistelbauer, T.; Parinussa, R.; Paulik, C.; Reimer, C.; Van der Schalie, R.; De Jeu, R.; Melzer, T.; Vreugdenhil, M. (2016): ESA Soil Moisture Climate Change Initiative (Soil_Moisture_cci): 'Active' Product, Version 02.2. Centre for Environmental Data Analysis, date of citation. https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/663a557e848a4a9f8f0d205c6b3cb7f6
Abbreviation: Not defined
Keywords: ESA, Soil Moisture, CCI, Active

Details

Previous Info:

2018-06-29 This dataset forms part of the v02.2 Soil Moisture dataset (doi:10.5285/3729b3fbbb434930bf65d82f9b00111c. http://dx.doi.org/10.… Show More 2018-06-29 This dataset forms part of the v02.2 Soil Moisture dataset (doi:10.5285/3729b3fbbb434930bf65d82f9b00111c. http://dx.doi.org/10.5285/3729b3fbbb434930bf65d82f9b00111c ) Show Less

Previously used record identifiers:
No related previous identifiers.
Access rules:
Public data: access to these data is available to both registered and non-registered users.
Use of these data is covered by the following licence: http://artefacts.ceda.ac.uk/licences/specific_licences/esacci_soilmoisture_terms_and_conditions.pdf. When using these data you must cite them correctly using the citation given on the CEDA Data Catalogue record.
Data lineage:

Data were processed by the ESA CCI Soil Moisture project team and transferred to CEDA for the ESA CCI Open Data Portal Project.
This dataset forms part of the v02.2 Soil Moisture dataset (doi:10.5285/3729b3fbbb434930bf65d82f9b00111c. http://dx.doi.org/10.5285/3729b3fbbb434930bf65d82f9b00111c )
File Format:
Data is in NetCDF -4

Related Documents

 Liu et al., 2011 Developing an improved soil moisture dataset by blending passive and active microwave satellite-based retrievals
 ECV Soil Moisture Product Specification Document version 2.5
 Liu et al., 2012 Trend-preserving blending of passive and active microwave soil moisture retrievals
 Wagner, 2012: FUSION OF ACTIVE AND PASSIVE MICROWAVE OBSERVATIONS TO CREATE AN ESSENTIAL CLIMATE VARIABLE DATA RECORD ON SOIL MOISTURE
 Product User Guide
 Algorithm Theoretical Baseline Document (ATBD) Executive Summary
 Algorithm Theoretical Baseline Document (ATBD): Active Soil Moisture Retrievals
 ESA CCI Soil Moisture project website
 ESA Climate Change Initiative webpage

Process overview

  • long_name: Day(100) or Night(110) Flag
  • var_id: dnflag
  • var_id: flag
  • long_name: Flag
  • long_name: Frequency Band
  • var_id: freqband
  • long_name: Observation Timestamp
  • var_id: t0
  • units: percent
  • var_id: sm
  • long_name: Percent of Saturation Soil Moisture
  • units: percent
  • long_name: Percent of Saturation Soil Moisture Uncertainty
  • var_id: sm_uncertainty
  • long_name: Satellite Mode
  • var_id: mode
  • long_name: Sensor
  • var_id: sensor

Co-ordinate Variables

  • units: degrees_north
  • standard_name: latitude
  • var_id: lat
  • units: degrees_east
  • standard_name: longitude
  • var_id: lon
  • standard_name: time
  • var_id: time
Coverage
Temporal Range
Start time:
1991-01-01T00:00:00
End time:
2013-12-31T00:00:00
Geographic Extent

 
90.0000°
  
-180.0000°
  
180.0000°
 
-90.0000°
  
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Authors (15)
Publishers (1)