Soil Moisture (25 km resolution)

Data access

Download Soil Moisture
(25 km resolution)
Data Level 3

Download Soil Moisture
(25 km resolution)
Data SMOS-IC

Two Data Level

Level 3: multi-date product, summary of light pixels based on various level 2 products acquired over a short time period.
SMOS-IC

Format

NetCDF format and EASE-grid-2 grids with sampling at 25 km.

Presentation

The ground surface humidity product provides absolute value data at the global scale with 25 km resolution. These data are acquired at a daily, weekly and monthly frequency. The period covered started in 2002 and is still ongoing.

Measuring Summer 2018 Drought

Here the soil moisture measured by SMOS-IC in July 2017 (left) and July 2018 (right) for Europe. The comparison shows a strong summer deficit in Northern France, Belgium and the Netherlands in 2018.

Contact

Yann Kerr
Cesbio
@Y.Kerr

Arnaud Mialon
Cesbio
@A.Mialon

Jean-Pierre Wigneron
INRAE | SMOS-IC
ResearchGate
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