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Dataset

 

ESA Permafrost Climate Change Initiative (Permafrost_cci): Permafrost Ground Temperature for the Northern Hemisphere, v1.0

Update Frequency: Not Planned
Latest Data Update: 2019-12-05
Status: Superseded
Online Status: ONLINE
Publication State: Citable
Publication Date: 2019-12-06
DOI Publication Date: 2019-12-19
Download Stats: last 12 months
Dataset Size: 16 Files | 21GB

This dataset has been superseded. See Latest Version here
Abstract

This dataset contains permafrost ground temperature data produced as part of the European Space Agency's (ESA) Climate Change Initiative (CCI) Permafrost project. It forms part of the Beta version of their Climate Research Data Package (CRDP v0). It is derived from a thermal model driven and constrained by satellite data. Grid products of CDRP v0 are released in annual files, covering the start to the end of the Julian year. This corresponds to average annual ground temperatures and is provided for specific depths (surface, 1m, 2m, 5m , 10m) for the Northern Hemisphere (north of 30°) for the period 2003-2017.

Citable as:  Obu, J.; Westermann, S.; Barboux, C.; Bartsch, A.; Delaloye, R.; Grosse, G.; Heim, B.; Hugelius, G.; Irrgang, A.; Kääb, A.M.; Kroisleitner, C.; Matthes, H.; Nitze, I.; Pellet, C.; Seifert, F.M.; Strozzi, T.; Wegmüller, U.; Wieczorek, M.; Wiesmann, A. (2019): ESA Permafrost Climate Change Initiative (Permafrost_cci): Permafrost Ground Temperature for the Northern Hemisphere, v1.0. Centre for Environmental Data Analysis, 19 December 2019. doi:10.5285/9a333481e9a34c7a8f78902f77ad3fe7. https://dx.doi.org/10.5285/9a333481e9a34c7a8f78902f77ad3fe7
Abbreviation: Not defined
Keywords: Permafrost, CCI, Ground Temperature

Details

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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_permafrost_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 have been produced by the ESA CCI Permafrost project as part of ESA's Climate Change Initiative programme

Data Quality:
Data are as provided by the CCI Permafrost project. For further quality information see the permafrost CCI website and linked documentation.
File Format:
NetCDF

Process overview

This dataset was generated by the computation detailed below.
Title

Computation of Permafrost datsets by the ESA Permafrost CCI

Abstract

The Permafrost CCI project is establishing Earth Observation (EO) based products for the permafrost Essential Climate Variable (ECV) spanning the last two decades. Since ground temperature and thaw depth cannot be directly observed from space-borne sensors, a variety of satellite and reanalysis data are combined in a ground thermal model. The algorithm uses remotely sensed data sets of Land Surface Temperature (MODIS LST/ ESA LST CCI) and landcover (ESA LandcoverCCI) to drive the transient permafrost model CryoGrid 2, which yields thaw depth and ground temperature at various depths, while ground temperature forms the basis for permafrost fraction.

Input Description

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Output Description

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Software Reference

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  • units: degrees kelvin*100
  • var_id: GST
  • units: degrees kelvin*100
  • var_id: T10m
  • units: degrees kelvin*100
  • var_id: T1m
  • units: degrees kelvin*100
  • var_id: T2m
  • units: degrees kelvin*100
  • var_id: T5m
  • var_id: polar_stereographic
  • units: m
  • var_id: x
  • standard_name: projection_x_coordinate
  • long_name: x coordinate of projection
  • names: projection_x_coordinate, x coordinate of projection
  • units: m
  • var_id: y
  • standard_name: projection_y_coordinate
  • long_name: y coordinate of projection
  • names: projection_y_coordinate, y coordinate of projection

Co-ordinate Variables