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ESA Soil Moisture Climate Change Initiative (Soil_Moisture_cci): Version 04.4 data collection

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Abstract

Soil Moisture data (version 04.4) from the European Space Agency's (ESA) Soil Moisture Climate Change Initiative (CCI) project. This dataset collection contains three surface soil moisture datasets, alongside ancilliary data products. The ACTIVE and PASSIVE products have been created by fusing scatterometer and radiometer soil moisture products respectively. In the case of the ACTIVE product, these have been derived from AMI-WS and ASCAT instruments and for the PASSIVE product from the instruments SMMR, SSM/I, TMI, AMSR-E, WindSat, AMSR2 and SMOS. The COMBINED product is generated from the Level 2 active and passive instruments..

The homogenized and merged products present a global coverage of surface soil moisture at a spatial resolution of 0.25 degrees. The products are provided as global daily images, in NetCDF-4 classic file format, the PASSIVE and COMBINED products covering the period (yyyy-mm-dd) 1978-11-01 to 2018-06-30 and the ACTIVE product covering 1991-08-05 to 2018-06-30. The soil moisture data for the PASSIVE and the COMBINED product are provided in volumetric units [m3 m-3], while the ACTIVE soil moisture data are expressed in percent of saturation [%]. For information regarding the theoretical and algorithmic base of the datasets, please see the Algorithm Theoretical Baseline Document (ATBD). Other additional documentation and information documentation relating to the datasets can also be found on the CCI Soil Moisture project web site or in the Product Specification Document.

The data set should be cited using the all of the following references:

1. Dorigo, W.A., Wagner, W., Albergel, C., Albrecht, F., Balsamo, G., Brocca, L., Chung, D., Ertl, M., Forkel, M., Gruber, A., Haas, E., Hamer, D. P. Hirschi, M., Ikonen, J., De Jeu, R. Kidd, R. Lahoz, W., Liu, Y.Y., Miralles, D., Lecomte, P. (2017). ESA CCI Soil Moisture for improved Earth system understanding: State-of-the art and future directions. In Remote Sensing of Environment, 2017, ISSN 0034-4257, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2017.07.001

2. Gruber, A., Dorigo, W. A., Crow, W., Wagner W. (2017). Triple Collocation-Based Merging of Satellite Soil Moisture Retrievals. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. PP. 1-13. 10.1109/TGRS.2017.2734070

3. Liu, Y.Y., Dorigo, W.A., Parinussa, R.M., de Jeu, R.A.M. , Wagner, W., McCabe, M.F., Evans, J.P., van Dijk, A.I.J.M. (2012). Trend-preserving blending of passive and active microwave soil moisture retrievals, Remote Sensing of Environment, 123, 280-297, doi: 10.1016/j.rse.2012.03.014

4. Gruber, A., Scanlon, T., van der Schalie, R., Wagner, W., and Dorigo, W.: Evolution of the ESA CCI Soil Moisture Climate Data Records and their underlying merging methodology, Earth Syst. Sci. Data Discuss., https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-2019-21, in review, 2019.

Citable as:Dorigo, W.; Wagner, W.; Gruber, A.; Scanlon, T.; Hahn, S.; Kidd, R.; Paulik, C.; Reimer, C.; Van der Schalie, R.; Preimesberger, W.; De Jeu, R. (2019): ESA Soil Moisture Climate Change Initiative (Soil_Moisture_cci): Version 04.4 data collection. Centre for Environmental Data Analysis, 06 May 2019. doi:10.5285/dce27a397eaf47e797050c220972ca0e. https://dx.doi.org/10.5285/dce27a397eaf47e797050c220972ca0e
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Keywords: ESA, Soil Moisture, CCI

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Related Documents

 Product User Guide
 Dorigo, W.A., Wagner, W., Albergel, C., Albrecht, F., Balsamo, G., Brocca, L., Chung, D., Ertl, M., Forkel, M., Gruber, A., Haas, E., Hamer, D. P. Hirschi, M., Ikonen, J., De Jeu, R. Kidd, R. Lahoz, W., Liu, Y.Y., Miralles, D., Lecomte, P. (2017). ESA CCI Soil Moisture for improved Earth system understanding: State-of-the art and future directions. In Remote Sensing of Environment, 2017, ISSN 0034-4257, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2017.07.001.
 Wagner, 2012: FUSION OF ACTIVE AND PASSIVE MICROWAVE OBSERVATIONS TO CREATE AN ESSENTIAL CLIMATE VARIABLE DATA RECORD ON SOIL MOISTURE
 Gruber, A., Dorigo, W. A., Crow, W., Wagner W. (2017). Triple Collocation-Based Merging of Satellite Soil Moisture Retrievals. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. PP. 1-13. 10.1109/TGRS.2017.2734070
 Liu et al., 2011 Developing an improved soil moisture dataset by blending passive and active microwave satellite-based retrievals
 Liu, Y.Y., Dorigo, W.A., Parinussa, R.M., de Jeu, R.A.M. , Wagner, W., McCabe, M.F., Evans, J.P., van Dijk, A.I.J.M. (2012). Trend-preserving blending of passive and active microwave soil moisture retrievals, Remote Sensing of Environment, 123, 280-297, doi: 10.1016/j.rse.2012.03.014
 Algorithm Theoretical Baseline Document (ATBD) D2.1 Version 04.4 Executive Summary
 Algorithm Theoretical Baseline Document (ATBD) D2.1 Version 04.4 Active Soil Moisture Retrievals
 Algorithm Theoretical Baseline Document (ATBD) D2.1 Version 04.4 Soil Moisture Retrievals from Passive Microwave Sensors
 Algorithm Theoretical Baseline Document (ATBD) D2.1 Version 04.4 Merging Active and Passive Soil Moisture Retrievals
 Product Specification Document (PSD) D1.2.1 Version 4.2
 Gruber, A., Scanlon, T., van der Schalie, R., Wagner, W., and Dorigo, W.: Evolution of the ESA CCI Soil Moisture Climate Data Records and their underlying merging methodology, Earth Syst. Sci. Data Discuss., https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-2019-21, in review, 2019.
 ESA Climate Change Initiative website
 ESA CCI Soil Moisture project website

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Gruber, A., Scanlon, T., van der Schalie, R., Wagner, W. & Dorigo, W. (2019) Evolution of the ESA CCI Soil Moisture climate data records and their underlying merging methodology. Earth System Science Data 11, 717–739. https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-11-717-2019 https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-11-717-2019
Coverage
Temporal Range
Start time:
1978-11-01T00:00:00
End time:
2018-06-30T22:59:59
Geographic Extent

 
90.0000°
 
-180.0000°
 
180.0000°
 
-90.0000°