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ESA Soil Moisture Climate Change Initiative (Soil_Moisture_cci): 'Passive' Product, Version 04.2

The Soil Moisture CCI 'Passive' dataset is one of the three datasets created as part of the European Space Agency's (ESA) Soil Moisture Essential Climate Variable (ECV) CCI project. The product has been created by fusing radiometer soil moisture products, merging data from the SMMR, SSM/I, TMI, AMSR-E, WindSat, AMSR2 and SMOS satellite instruments. 'Active' and 'Combined' products have also been created, the 'Active' product being a fusion of AMI-WS and ASCAT derived scatterometer products and the 'Combined Product' being a blended product based on the former two data sets.

The v04.2 Passive product presents a global coverage of surface soil moisture at a spatial resolution of 0.25 degrees. The product is provided in volumetric units [m3 m-3] and covers the period (yyyy-mm-dd) 1978-11-01 to 2016-12-31. It consists of global daily images stored within yearly folders and are NetCDF-4 classic file formatted. 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. 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

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Date (Publication)
2018-06-25T14:29:01
Date (Creation)
2018-06-25T14:29:01
Identifier
https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/a4f9546935a644d3b3260b7f6a0a183f
Identifier
Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) / a4f9546935a644d3b3260b7f6a0a183f
Identifier
alternative.identifier / esacci.SOILMOISTURE.day.L3S.SSMV.multi-sensor.multi-platform.PASSIVE.04-2.r1.v20180618
Author
  Unavailable - Dorigo, Wouter ( author )
Author
  Unavailable - Wagner, Wolfgang ( author )
Author
  Unavailable - Gruber, A. ( author )
Author
  Unavailable - Scanlon, T. ( author )
Author
  Unavailable - Hahn, S. ( author )
Author
  Unavailable - Kidd, R. ( author )
Author
  Unavailable - Paulik, C ( author )
Author
  Unavailable - Reimer, C. ( author )
Author
  Unavailable - Van der Schalie, R. ( author )
Author
  Unavailable - De Jeu, R. ( author )
Custodian
  Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) - custodian
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell , Oxon , OX11 0QX , United Kingdom
01235446432
Distributor
  Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) - distributor
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell , Oxon , OX11 0QX , United Kingdom
01235446432
pointofContact
  Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) - point_of_contact
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell , Oxon , OX11 0QX , United Kingdom
01235446432
pointofContact
  CCI Open Data Portal - point_of_contact
Publisher
  Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) - publisher
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell , Oxon , OX11 0QX , United Kingdom
01235446432
Maintenance and update frequency
notPlanned Not planned
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dataset Dataset
Keywords
  • soil moisture
  • Scanning Multichannel Microwave Radiometer
  • WindSat Polarimetric Microwave Radiometer
  • Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer for Earth Observation from Space (AMSR-E)
  • Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer-2
  • Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) Microwave Imager
  • Special Sensor Microwave Imager
  • surface soil moisture volumetric absolutes
  • soil moisture
  • day
  • Vienna University of Technology
  • Aqua
  • Coriolis
  • GCOM-W1
  • Nimbus-7
  • TRMM
  • DMSP
  • Coriolis
  • EOS
  • GCOM
  • Nimbus
  • TRMM
  • Level 3
  • Level 3S
  • PASSIVE
  • AMSR2
  • AMSRE
  • SMMR
  • SSM/I
  • TMI
  • WindSat
  • ESA
  • CCI
  • Passive
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
  • orthoimagery
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Public data: access to these data is available to both registered and non-registered users.
Use constraints
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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
2016-12-31T23:59:59
Unique resource identifier
WGS 84
Distribution format
  • Data are in NetCDF format ()

Distributor
  Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) - Data Center Contact
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell , Oxon , OX11 0QX , United Kingdom
01235446432
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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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Wagner, 2012: FUSION OF ACTIVE AND PASSIVE MICROWAVE OBSERVATIONS TO CREATE AN ESSENTIAL CLIMATE VARIABLE DATA RECORD ON SOIL MOISTURE

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Product User Guide

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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

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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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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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Product Specification Document (PSD) D1.2.1 Version 4.2

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Algorithm Theoretical Baseline Document (ATBD) D2.1 Version 04.2 Executive Summary

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Algorithm Theoretical Baseline Document (ATBD) D2.1 Version 04.2 Soil Moisture Retrievals from Passive Microwave Sensors

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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 v04.2 Soil Moisture dataset (doi: 10.5285/3a8a94c3fa464d68b6d70df291afd457 https://doi.org/10.5285/3a8a94c3fa464d68b6d70df291afd457)

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ESA Soil Moisture Climate Change Initiative (Soil_Moisture_cci): Version 04.2 data collection 3a8a94c3fa464d68b6d70df291afd457
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Date stamp
2025-11-15T03:16:02
Metadata standard name
UK GEMINI
Metadata standard version
2.3
Point of contact
  Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell , Oxon , OX11 0QX , United Kingdom
01235446432
 
 

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