ESA CCI SM RZSM Long-term Climate Record of Root-Zone Soil Moisture from merged multi-satellite observations

Context and methodology

Technical details

• rzsm1: 0-10 cm
• rzsm2: 10-40 cm
• rzsm3: 40-100 cm
• rzsm4: 0-100 cm

• The package can be installed via pip using "pip install esa_cci_sm"
• The documentation for this package is available here: https://esa-cci-sm.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
• The "parameter" argument (e.g., https://github.com/TUW-GEO/esa_cci_sm/blob/33a8a453bbccb55188804bce07a37315e9a3db43/src/esa_cci_sm/interface.py#L39) can be specified to any of the layer variables (rzsm1, rzsm2, ...)

Reference

Pasik, A., Gruber, A., Preimesberger, W., De Santis, D., and Dorigo, W.: Uncertainty estimation for a new exponential-filter-based long-term root-zone soil moisture dataset from Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) surface observations, Geosci. Model Dev., 16, 4957–4976, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-16-4957-2023, 2023

Additional citations

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.

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

Preimesberger, W., Scanlon, T., Su,  C. -H., Gruber, A. and Dorigo, W. (2021). Homogenization of Structural Breaks in the Global ESA CCI Soil Moisture Multisatellite Climate Data Record, in IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, vol. 59, no. 4, pp. 2845-2862, April 2021, doi: 10.1109/TGRS.2020.3012896.

Related Records

The following records are all part of the Soil Moisture Climate Data Records from satellites community