Articles | Volume 10, issue 1
https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-10-267-2018
https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-10-267-2018
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08 Feb 2018
Peer-reviewed comment |  | 08 Feb 2018

SM2RAIN-CCI: a new global long-term rainfall data set derived from ESA CCI soil moisture

Luca Ciabatta, Christian Massari, Luca Brocca, Alexander Gruber, Christoph Reimer, Sebastian Hahn, Christoph Paulik, Wouter Dorigo, Richard Kidd, and Wolfgang Wagner

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In this study, rainfall is estimated starting from satellite soil moisture observation on a global scale, using the ESA CCI soil moisture datasets. The new obtained rainfall product has proven to correctly identify rainfall events, showing performance sometimes higher than those obtained by using classical rainfall estimation approaches.
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