The global long-term microwave Vegetation Optical Depth Climate Archive (VODCA)

Moesinger, Leander; Dorigo, Wouter; de Jeu, Richard; van der Schalie, Robin; Scanlon, Tracy; Teubner, Irene; Forkel, Matthias

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-12-177-2020

Articles | Volume 12, issue 1

https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-12-177-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-12-177-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 12, issue 1

Data description paper

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30 Jan 2020

Data description paper |

| 30 Jan 2020

The global long-term microwave Vegetation Optical Depth Climate Archive (VODCA)

Leander Moesinger, Wouter Dorigo, Richard de Jeu, Robin van der Schalie, Tracy Scanlon, Irene Teubner, and Matthias Forkel

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AC: Author comment | RC: Referee comment | SC: Short comment | EC: Editor comment

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SC1: 'comments on global VODCA generation', Xingwang Fan, 26 Apr 2019
RC1: 'Potentially useful dataset needs number of changes, presentational clarifications', Anonymous Referee #1, 28 May 2019
RC2: 'New multi-frequency C/X/Ku VOD long-term data set: comments and recommendations', M. Piles, 14 Jun 2019
AC1: 'Final author comments', Leander Moesinger, 19 Jul 2019

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AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision

AR by Leander Moesinger on behalf of the Authors (18 Aug 2019) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (review by editor) (10 Oct 2019) by Birgit Heim

AR by Leander Moesinger on behalf of the Authors (20 Oct 2019) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (review by editor) (02 Nov 2019) by Birgit Heim

AR by Leander Moesinger on behalf of the Authors (12 Nov 2019) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (01 Dec 2019) by Birgit Heim

AR by Leander Moesinger on behalf of the Authors (09 Dec 2019)

Short summary

Vegetation optical depth (VOD) is measured by satellites and is related to the density of vegetation and its water content. VOD has a wide range of uses, including drought, wildfire danger, biomass, and carbon stock monitoring. For the past 30 years there have been various VOD data sets derived from space-borne microwave sensors, but biases between them prohibit a combined use. We removed these biases and merged the data to create the global long-term VOD Climate Archive (VODCA).