Description
This data set contains for the whole of Europe a set of layers on soil moisture estimates based on a) satellite information and b) hydrological model outcome. Additionally, it comes with a layer on soil moisture anomalies.
Brief informaiton on the individual layers: 1) Satellite-derived soil moisture: Relative soil moisture for soil depths 0 - 1.0m as derived from the advanced scatterometer (ASCAT) on board the METOP satellite. Relative soil moisture is calculated using a weighted average of the three different soil moisture layers provided by ASCAT. This is an operational H-SAF product. For more information visit http://hsaf.meteoam.it/soil-moisture.php
2) Model-derived soil moisture: LISFLOOD simulated relative soil moisture of the upper soil layer based on observed meteorological input.
3) Soil moisture anomalies: Deviation of the LISFLOOD simulated daily soil moisture from normal conditions. The normal conditions have been derived using the simulated soil moisture from a 22 year model climatology (1991 - 2012). For more information visit https://www.efas.eu/utilities/efas-user-information.html#soilmosture
This information is part of the operational suit of EFAS (www.efas.eu) and intends to provide
EFAS partners with in-depth information about the current soil moisture (anomaly) as important supplementary information to better judge upcoming hydrological extremes.
The update frequency of this data set is daily; and the spatial coverage is the extended geographic Europe.
Contact
Contributors
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- European Commission, Joint Research Centre
- https://ec.europa.eu/jrc/en
How to cite
European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC) (2017): EFAS soil moisture. European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC) [Dataset] PID: http://data.europa.eu/89h/96079eb5-b5c1-43ec-8933-21ac2eda07bc
Keywords
Copernicus EFAS soil moisture anomaly satellite-derived soil moisture soil moisture Copernicus Emergency Management Service pan European ASCAT
Data access
EFAS partners have the possibility to access and download selected products from the operational EFAS by using this password-protected OGC service.
This data set can be viewed by EFAS partners online under http://www.efas.eu by activating the layers: - soil moisture - satellite soil moisture - soil moisture anomaly
EFAS partners have the possibility to access and download selected products from the operational EFAS by using this password-protected OGC service.
Spatial coverage
| Type | Value |
|---|---|
| GML | <gml:Envelope srsName="http://www.opengis.net/def/crs/OGC/1.3/CRS84"><gml:lowerCorner>-11.5 27</gml:lowerCorner><gml:upperCorner>41 67</gml:upperCorner></gml:Envelope> |
| GEO | POLYGON((-11.5 67,41 67,41 27,-11.5 27,-11.5 67)) |
| GEO | {"type":"Polygon","crs":{"type":"name","properties":{"name":"urn:ogc:def:crs:OGC:1.3:CRS84"}},"coordinates":[[[-11.5,67],[41,67],[41,27],[-11.5,27],[-11.5,67]]]} |
Lineage information
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Additional information
- Published by
- European Commission, Joint Research Centre
- Created date
- 2021-04-23
- Modified date
- 2020-09-11
- Issued date
- 2017-03-06
- Landing page
- https://www.efas.eu/
- Language(s)
- English
- Data theme(s)
- Environment, Science and technology
- Update frequency
- unknown
- Identifier
- http://data.europa.eu/89h/96079eb5-b5c1-43ec-8933-21ac2eda07bc
- Popularity
- 08 Jun 2022: 1 visits