SM2RAIN–ASCAT (2007–2018): global daily satellite rainfall data from ASCAT soil moisture observations

Brocca, Luca; Filippucci, Paolo; Hahn, Sebastian; Ciabatta, Luca; Massari, Christian; Camici, Stefania; Schüller, Lothar; Bojkov, Bojan; Wagner, Wolfgang

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-11-1583-2019

Articles | Volume 11, issue 4

https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-11-1583-2019

© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-11-1583-2019

© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 11, issue 4

Data description paper

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22 Oct 2019

Data description paper |

| 22 Oct 2019

SM2RAIN–ASCAT (2007–2018): global daily satellite rainfall data from ASCAT soil moisture observations

Luca Brocca, Paolo Filippucci, Sebastian Hahn, Luca Ciabatta, Christian Massari, Stefania Camici, Lothar Schüller, Bojan Bojkov, and Wolfgang Wagner

Data sets

SM2RAIN-ASCAT (2007-August 2019): global daily satellite rainfall from ASCAT soil moisture Luca Brocca, Paolo Filippucci, Sebastian Hahn, Luca Ciabatta, Christian Massari, Stefania Camici, Lothar Schüller, Bojan Bojkov, Wolfgang Wagner https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3405563

SM2RAIN test dataset with ASCAT satellite soil moisture Luca Brocca https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.2580285

Model code and software

SM2RAIN-ASCAT reader Luca Brocca, Luca Ciabatta, Christian Massari https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3451685

SM2RAIN code Sebastian Hahn, Luca Ciabatta, Christian Massari, Luca Brocca https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.2203560

Short summary

SM2RAIN–ASCAT is a new 12-year (2007–2018) global-scale rainfall dataset obtained by applying the SM2RAIN algorithm to ASCAT soil moisture data. The dataset has a spatiotemporal sampling resolution of 12.5 km and 1 d. Results show that the new dataset performs particularly well in Africa and South America, i.e. in the continents in which ground observations are scarce and the need for satellite rainfall data is high. SM2RAIN–ASCAT is available at http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.340556.