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Next-generation Metop ASCAT surface soil moisture datasets from EUMETSAT H SAF
Sebastian Hahn
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Department of Geodesy and Geoinformation, TU Wien, Wiedner Hauptstraße 8-10, 1040 Vienna, Austria
Thomas Melzer
Department of Geodesy and Geoinformation, TU Wien, Wiedner Hauptstraße 8-10, 1040 Vienna, Austria
Wolfgang Wagner
Department of Geodesy and Geoinformation, TU Wien, Wiedner Hauptstraße 8-10, 1040 Vienna, Austria
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This article presents the latest version of the H SAF (Satellite Application Facility on Support to Operational Hydrology and Water Management) ASCAT (Advanced Scatterometer) SSM (surface soil moisture) datasets, unifying the NRT (near real-time) product with the historical offline data record. This release now applies the latest retrieval algorithm to both data streams, creating a consistent and unified data stream that is further complemented by a new, high-resolution 6.25 km sampling SSM product. The H SAF ASCAT SSM datasets are publicly available from https://hsaf.meteoam.it.
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