CPC Soil Moisture

Description

The monthly data set consists of a file containing 1/2 degree monthly averaged soil moisture water height equivalents for the globe from 1948 onwards. Values are model-calculated and not measured directly. Soil moisture is estimated by a one-layer hydrological model (Huang et al., 1996; van den Dool et al, 2003). The model takes observed precipitation and temperature and calculates soil moisture, evaporation and runoff.

Resources

Name Format Description Link
21 Thredds Data server. Allows http, opendap, and possibly WCS and WMS downaloads. https://psl.noaa.gov/thredds/catalog/Datasets/cpcsoil/catalog.html
21 Information about the dataset https://www.esrl.noaa.gov/psd/data/gridded/data.cpcsoil.html
0 FTP server. ftp://ftp2.psl.noaa.gov/Datasets/cpcsoil

Tags

  • model-calculated monthly mean soil moisture
  • percent of grid that is land
  • model-calculated long term monthly mean soil moisture
  • long term mean model-calculated monthly mean soil moisture

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