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ESA Soil Moisture Climate Change Initiative (Soil_Moisture_cci): COMBINED Product, Version 04.7
The Soil Moisture CCI COMBINED dataset is one of 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 directly merging Level 2 scatterometer and radiometer soil moisture products derived from the AMI-WS, ASCAT, SMMR, SSM/I, TMI, AMSR-E, WindSat, AMSR2 and SMOS satellite instruments.
The v04.7 COMBINED 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 volumetric units [m3 m-3] and covers the period (yyyy-mm-dd) 1978-11-01 to 2019-12-31. 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 web site or within the Product Specification Document.
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
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- Date (Publication)
- 2020-04-16T16:03:41
- Date (Creation)
- 2020-04-16T16:03:41
- Identifier
- Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) / 2d4a50f390064820a9dcc2fcf7ac4b18
- Identifier
- alternative.identifier / esacci.SOILMOISTURE.day.L3S.SSMV.multi-sensor.multi-platform.COMBINED.04-7.r1.v20200416
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- notPlanned Not planned
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- dataset Dataset
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- soil moisture
- ESA
- Soil Moisture
- CCI
- COMBINED
- GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
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- orthoimagery
- Access constraints
- otherRestrictions Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- Public data: access to these data is available to both registered and non-registered users.
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- Spatial representation type
- grid Grid
- Metadata language
- EnglishEnglish
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- Imagery base maps earth cover
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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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Data are netCDF formatted.
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Data are netCDF formatted.
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CEDA Data Catalogue Page
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Product User Guide
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Product Specification Document (PSD) D1.2.1 Version 4.7
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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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Liu et al., 2011 Developing an improved soil moisture dataset by blending passive and active microwave satellite-based retrievals
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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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Sample Image
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Wagner, 2012: FUSION OF ACTIVE AND PASSIVE MICROWAVE OBSERVATIONS TO CREATE AN ESSENTIAL CLIMATE VARIABLE DATA RECORD ON SOIL MOISTURE
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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
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ESA CCI Soil Moisture project website
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CCI Soil Moisture Algorithm Theoretical Baseline Document (ATBD), v4.7
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ESA Climate Change Initiative website
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- dataset Dataset
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- Date (Publication)
- 2010-12-08
- Statement
- Data were processed by the ESA CCI Soil Moisture project team and transferred to CEDA for the ESA CCI Open Data Portal Project. This dataset forms part of the v04.7 Soil Moisture dataset (doi:10.5285/0683e320d8634a37aa1d9ef62dd41a0d) https://dx.doi.org/10.5285/0683e320d8634a37aa1d9ef62dd41a0d .
- File identifier
- 2d4a50f390064820a9dcc2fcf7ac4b18 XML
- Metadata language
- EnglishEnglish
- Character set
- 8-bit variable size UCS Transfer Format, based on ISO/IEC 10646 UTF8
- Parent identifier
- ESA Soil Moisture Climate Change Initiative (Soil_Moisture_cci): Version 04.7 data collection 0683e320d8634a37aa1d9ef62dd41a0d
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- dataset Dataset
- Date stamp
- 2025-11-15T03:19:19
- Metadata standard name
- UK GEMINI
- Metadata standard version
- 2.3
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