ICDC News (2023)

About weekly you can find the ICDC news here and a short version of it at Twitter @ICDC_Hamburg.

4 August 2023|icdc-news-en

Extensions of NSIDC sea-ice motion and sea-ice age v4.1 data sets

sea-ice velocity (drift) data set v4.1 from NSIDC, DEC 2020

Photo: UHH/CEN/AJB

We extended the data set of the NSIDC daily gridded sea-ice motion, version 4.1, together with the additional monthly mean gridded sea-ice motion...

7 July 2023|icdc-news-en

Upgrade of ESA-CCI Soil Moisture data set to v8.1

Photo: UHH/CEN/StefanKern

The ESA-CCI Soil Moisture Projekt team has reprocessed the entire soil moisture data set using improved methodologies and added more data. It comes at...

7 July 2023|icdc-news-en

Extension of MODIS Forest and Vegetation Cover Fraction Dataset

Photo: UHH/CEN/StefanKern

We extended the TERRA-MODIS Forest and Vegetation Cover Fraction data set, version 6.1, by data of the year 2022. With that the data are now available...

23 June 2023|icdc-news-en

Extension of MODIS Vegetation Index (NDVI)

Aqua MODIS Normalized Vegetation Cover Index 2021-12

Photo: UHH/CEN/StefanKern

We extended the MODIS Terra and Aqua vegetation index (NDVI and EVI) data sets until including May 2023. These global data sets come at monthly...

16 June 2023|icdc-news-en

Extension of MODIS snow cover

$AQUA MODIS monthly mean snow cover fraction 202210$

Photo: UHH/CEN/StefanKern

We extended the Terra and Aqua MODIS snow cover data sets, version 6.1, until including May 2023. These global data sets come at 0.05 degree grid...

16 June 2023|icdc-news-en

New data set: MSWEP precipitation amount

Photo: UHH/CEN/StefanKern

We offer a new data set, the MSWEP (Multi-Source Weighted-Ensemble Precipitation) precipitation amount data set. It comes with 3-hourly temporal...

15 June 2023|icdc-news-en

Workshop "How to create publishable netCDF data"

The ICDC will provide an in-person workshop in Hamburg on July 27+28.

The workshop deals with creating publishable netCDF (Network Common Data
Format)...

26 May 2023|icdc-news-en

Upgrade of GLEAM evaporation parameters v3.6 to v3.7

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Data of the Global Land Evaporation Amsterdam Model (GLEAM) have been updated from GLEAM version v3.6a to GLEAM version v3.7a and extended by data for...

17 May 2023|icdc-news-en

Extension of Reynolds OISST

Reynolds OISST monthly mean SST for December 2022

Photo: UHH/CEN/StefanKern

We extended the v2.1 Reynolds optimum interpolation sea surface temperature (OISST) data set until including April 2023. We offer daily data, monthly...

12 May 2023|icdc-news-en

PROBA-V/S3-OLCI Land surface parameter datasets now at 0.5 degree

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We now provide the global LAI, FAPAR and Vegetation Cover Fraction data sets also on a 0.5 degree resolution grid - for the period 2014-01-01 through...

5 May 2023|icdc-news-en

Upgrade of CERES EBAF radiation fluxes data set

CERES-EBAF Ed4.1 Net Longwave Surface Radiation March 2022

Photo: UHH/CEN/StefanKern

We upgraded the CERES EBAF Surface and Top-of-Atmosphere (TOA) radiation fluxes data set from version Ed4.1 to Ed4.2. This global data set with 1...

28 April 2023|icdc-news-en

Extension of SMOS Soil Moisture data

Photo: UHH/CEN/StefanKern

We extended the soil moisture data set derived from Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) MIRAS sensor L-Band brightness temperature measurements by...

14 April 2023|icdc-news-en

Extension of IFREMER-ICDC ASI sea-ice concentration data set

Time series of ASI algorithm Antarctic sea-ice area anomalies

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We extended the IFREMER-ICDC ASI-algorithm sea-ice concentration data set until 2023-03-31; this data set comes at 12.5 km grid resolution and begins...

14 April 2023|icdc-news-en

Extension of GPCC Monitoring Product

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We extended the GPCC Monitoring Product of monthly global land-surface precipitation V.2022 by data of the Sep. 2022 through JAn. 2023. This data set...

7 April 2023|icdc-news-en

Upgrade of OSISAF sea-ice concentration data set

Time series of OSI SAF Arctic sea-ice extent

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We upgraded the EUMETSAT OSI-SAF sea-ice concentration (interim) climate data record from v2.0 to v3.0, i.e. from OSI-450/OSI-430b to...

31 March 2023|icdc-news-en

Extension of SPOT/PROBA-V/S3-OLCI 1/3 km resolution LAI FAPAR and Vegetation Cover Fraction Datasets

Photo: UHH/CEN/StefanKern

We extended the fine-resolution version of the global LAI, FAPAR and Vegetation Cover Fraction data sets at 1/3 km (1/336°) grid resolution, available...

10 March 2023|icdc-news-en

Extension of MODIS LAI - FAPAR data set

Photo: UHH/CEN/StefanKern

We extended the TERRA-MODIS Leaf Area Index (LAI) and Fraction of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation (FAPAR) product MOD15A2H, Collection...

3 March 2023|icdc-news-en

Extension of MODIS Land Surface Temperature (LST)

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We extended the Terra and Aqua MODIS land surface temperature (LST) data sets by data of one year. These global data sets come at monthly and daily...

17 February 2023|icdc-news-en

Extension of MEaSUREs Antarctic Ice flow speed

We extended the MEaSUREs data set of the annual ice flow speed of the Antarctic continent ice sheet derived from space-borne Inferometric Synthetic...

17 February 2023|icdc-news-en

Extension of SARAH-2 Surface Solar Radiation

Surface Solar Radiation of SARAH-2 data set

Photo: UHH/CEN/StefanKern

We extended the Eumetsat CM-SAF surface solar radiation SARAH-2 dataset based on measurements of the visible chanels of the MVIRI and SEVIRI...