Dataset: ESA Soil Moisture Climate Change Initiative (Soil_Moisture_cci): ACTIVE Product, Version 05.3#

Dataset identifier: esacci.SOILMOISTURE.day.L3S.SSMS.multi-sensor.multi-platform.ACTIVE.v05-3.r1
Data store: cciodp

How to open this dataset in AVL JupyterLab  ⧉

cciodp_store = new_data_store('cciodp')
ds = cciodp_store.open_data('esacci.SOILMOISTURE.day.L3S.SSMS.multi-sensor.multi-platform.ACTIVE.v05-3.r1')

Bounding box map#

Map tiles and data from OpenStreetMap, under the ODbL.

Basic information#

Parameter	Value
Bounding box longitude (°)	-180.0 to 180.0
Bounding box latitude (°)	-90.0 to 90.0
Time range	1991-08-05 to 2020-12-31
Time period	1D

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Variable list#

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Full dataset metadata#

Field	Value
ecv	SOILMOISTURE
processing_level	L3S
product_string	ACTIVE
product_version	v05-3
data_type	SSMS
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) Climate Change Initiative (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 v05.3 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 is provided in percent of saturation [%] and covers the period (yyyy-mm-dd) 1991-08-05 to 2020-12-31. For information regarding the theoretical and algorithmic base of the product, please see the Algorithm Theoretical Baseline Document. Other additional reference documents and information relating to the dataset can also be found on the CCI Soil Moisture project website. The data set should be cited using all three of the following references: 1. Gruber, A., Scanlon, T., van der Schalie, R., Wagner, W., and Dorigo, W. (2019). Evolution of the ESA CCI Soil Moisture climate data records and their underlying merging methodology, Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 11, 717–739, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-11-717-2019 2. 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 3. 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
title	ESA Soil Moisture Climate Change Initiative (Soil_Moisture_cci): ACTIVE Product, Version 05.3
publication_date	2021-03-18T08:51:13
uuid	1da8dadcdfb642f4aad2384f02efe756
catalog_url	https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/1da8dadcdfb642f4aad2384f02efe756
sensor_id	multi-sensor
platform_id	multi-platform
cci_project	SOILMOISTURE