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ESA Water Vapour Climate Change Initiative (Water_Vapour_cci): Total Column Water Vapour monthly gridded data over land at 0.5 degree resolution, version 3.1

Latest Data Update: 2021-11-01
Status: Completed
Online Status: ONLINE
Publication State: Published
Publication Date: 2021-12-20
Download Stats: last 12 months
Dataset Size: 186 Files | 208MB
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Abstract

This dataset consists of monthly averaged total column water vapour (TCWV) over land, at a 0.5 degree resolution, observed by various satellite instruments. It has been produced by the European Space Agency Water Vapour Climate Change Initiative (Water_Vapour_cci), and forms part of their TCVW over land Climate Data Record -1 (TCWV-land (CDR-1).

This version of the data is v3.1.

Citable as:  Danne, O.; Falk, U.; Preusker, R.; Brockmann, C.; Fischer, J.; Hegglin, M.I.; Schröder, M. (2021): ESA Water Vapour Climate Change Initiative (Water_Vapour_cci): Total Column Water Vapour monthly gridded data over land at 0.5 degree resolution, version 3.1. NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis, date of citation. https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/008b306d2cda435cb7ea9eb44bc07c73/
Abbreviation: Not defined
Keywords: water vapour, CCI, TCWV

Details

Previous Info:

2021-12-21 This dataset forms part of the ESA Water Vapour Climate Change Initiative (Water_Vapour_cci): Total Column Water Vapour over la… Show More 2021-12-21 This dataset forms part of the ESA Water Vapour Climate Change Initiative (Water_Vapour_cci): Total Column Water Vapour over land (CDR1), v3.1 dataset collection that can be cited with the doi: 10.5285/a5c833831e26474bb1100ad3aa58bdf9 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(s):
https://artefacts.ceda.ac.uk/licences/specific_licences/esacci_watervapour_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 produced by the project team and supplied for archiving at the Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA).
Data Quality:
For inormation on the data quality see the documentation at https://climate.esa.int/projects/water-vapour/
File Format:
Data are in NetCDF format

Related Documents

 ESA Climate Change Initiative website
 ESA Water Vapour CCI project webpages

Process overview

This dataset was generated by a combination of instruments deployed on platforms and computations as detailed below.

Computation Element: 1

Title Derivation of the ESA Water Vapour Climate Change Initiative Total Column Water Vapour over land (TCWV-land) product, v3.1
Abstract For information on the derivation of the ESA Water Vapour CCI Total Column Water Vapour over land (TCWV-land) data, please see the ATBD (Algorithm Theoretical Baseline Document).
Input Description None
Output Description None
Software Reference None
Output Description

None
  • units: kg/m2
  • long_name: Average retrieval uncertainty
  • var_id: tcwv_err
  • names: Average retrieval uncertainty
  • var_id: crs
  • long_name: Coordinate Reference System
  • names: Coordinate Reference System
  • var_id: lat_bnds
  • long_name: Latitude cell boundaries
  • names: Latitude cell boundaries
  • var_id: lon_bnds
  • long_name: Longitude cell boundaries
  • names: Longitude cell boundaries
  • long_name: Number of Total Column of Water Vapour retrievals contributing to L3 grid cell
  • var_id: num_obs
  • names: Number of Total Column of Water Vapour retrievals contributing to L3 grid cell
  • long_name: Number of days in month with a valid TCWV value in L3 grid cell
  • var_id: num_days_tcwv
  • names: Number of days in month with a valid TCWV value in L3 grid cell
  • units: kg/m2
  • long_name: Random retrieval uncertainty
  • var_id: tcwv_ran
  • names: Random retrieval uncertainty
  • units: kg/m2
  • long_name: Standard deviation of Total Column of Water Vapour
  • var_id: stdv
  • names: Standard deviation of Total Column of Water Vapour
  • standard_name: status_flag
  • long_name: Surface type flag
  • var_id: surface_type_flag
  • names: status_flag, Surface type flag
  • var_id: time_bnds
  • long_name: Time cell boundaries
  • names: Time cell boundaries
  • standard_name: atmosphere_water_vapor_content
  • units: kg/m2
  • var_id: tcwv
  • long_name: Total Column of Water
  • names: atmosphere_water_vapor_content, Total Column of Water

Co-ordinate Variables

  • units: degrees_north
  • standard_name: latitude
  • var_id: lat
  • long_name: Latitude
  • names: latitude, Latitude
  • units: degrees_east
  • standard_name: longitude
  • var_id: lon
  • long_name: Longitude
  • names: longitude, Longitude
  • standard_name: time
  • var_id: time
  • names: time
Coverage
Temporal Range
Start time:
2002-07-01T00:00:00
End time:
2017-12-31T23:59:59
Geographic Extent

 
90.0000°
  
-180.0000°
  
180.0000°
 
-90.0000°
  
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Authors (7)
Publishers (1)