ESA Soil Moisture Climate Change Initiative (Soil_Moisture_cci): Version 05.2 data collection

Soil Moisture data (version 05.2) 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 satellite scatterometer and radiometer soil moisture products respectively. In the case of the ACTIVE product, these have been derived from the AMI-WS and ASCAT satellite instruments and for the PASSIVE product from the satellite instruments SMMR, SSM/I, TMI, AMSR-E, WindSat, AMSR2, SMOS and SMAP. 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 2019-12-31 and the ACTIVE product covering 1991-08-05 to 2019-12-31. 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. 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

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Date (Publication)
2020-11-23T14:36:41
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2020-11-23T14:36:41
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https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/b11f3fa3303e46e6b0d44b058947a3f5
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Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) / b11f3fa3303e46e6b0d44b058947a3f5
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doi / 10.5285/b11f3fa3303e46e6b0d44b058947a3f5
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Dorigo, Wouter

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Preimesberger, Wolfgang

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Moesinger, L

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Pasik, Adam

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Scanlon, T.

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Hahn, S.

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Van der Schalie, R.

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Van der Vliet, M.

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De Jeu, R.

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Kidd, R.

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Rodriguez-Fernandez, N.

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Hirschi, M.

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Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)

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Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)

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Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)

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CCI Open Data Portal

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Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)

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Keywords

  • ESA

  • Soil Moisture

  • CCI

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

  • atmospheric conditions
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Under the following licence https://artefacts.ceda.ac.uk/licences/specific_licences/esacci_soilmoisture_terms_and_conditions.pdf, appropriate use of these data may fall under any use. This message is intended as guidance, always read the full licence. When using these data you must cite them correctly using the citation given on the CEDA Data Catalogue record.
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Begin date
1978-11-01T00:00:00
End date
2019-12-31T23:59:59
Unique resource identifier
WGS 84
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Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)

support@ceda.ac.uk

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https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/b11f3fa3303e46e6b0d44b058947a3f5

CEDA Data Catalogue Page
OnLine resource
Protocol Linkage Name
https://climate.esa.int/en/projects/soil-moisture/

ESA CCI Soil Moisture project website
OnLine resource
Protocol Linkage Name
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2017.07.001

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.

OnLine resource
Protocol Linkage Name
https://doi.org/10.1109/TGRS.2017.2734070

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

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Protocol Linkage Name
https://climate.esa.int/

ESA Climate Change Initiative website
OnLine resource
Protocol Linkage Name
https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-11-717-2019

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

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Title

Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services

Date (Publication)
2010-12-08
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Please see data lineage statements for each dataset within this collection for data lineage details.

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2025-07-15T02:27:18
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2.3
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Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)

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GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

atmospheric conditions


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