ICDC News (2024)

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

20 December 2024|icdc-news-en

Upgrade of OSCAR ocean surface current

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We upgraded the OSCAR ocean surface current data set to version V2.0. Data are now available at daily temporal resolution on a 0.25 grid resolution...

13 December 2024|icdc-news-en

Upgrade of ASCAT soil moisture data set

We extended our global maps of the EUMETSAT Hydrology - Satellite Application Facility (H-SAF) MetOP-ASCAT soil moisture data set product version v7...

6 December 2024|icdc-news-en

Extension of MODIS sea surface temperature

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We extended the MODIS sea surface temperature (SST) data sets for both, Terra and Aqua, based on thermal infrared imaging until including October...

6 December 2024|icdc-news-en

Extension of MODIS chlorophyll-a concentration

EOS-Aqua MODIS chlorophyll-a concentration March 2022

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We extended the MODIS-based data sets of version v2022.0 of the ocean near-surface chlrorophyll-a concentration and related parameters, e.g...

29 November 2024|icdc-news-en

Upgrade of ECAD EOBS data to v30.0e

We upgraded the data set of European Climate Assessment & Dataset (ECAD) gridded meteorological observations from version v28e to version v30e. The...

22 November 2024|icdc-news-en

Extension of Reynolds OISST

Reynolds OISST monthly mean SST for December 2022

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We extended the v2.1 Reynolds optimum interpolation sea surface temperature (OISST) data set until including September 2024. We offer daily data...

22 November 2024|icdc-news-en

Extension of MODIS Vegetation Index (NDVI)

Aqua MODIS Normalized Vegetation Cover Index 2021-12

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We extended the MODIS Terra and Aqua vegetation index (NDVI and EVI) data sets until including October 2024. These global data sets come at monthly...

15 November 2024|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 six months. These global data sets come at monthly and daily...

8 November 2024|icdc-news-en

Extension of IMERG half-hourly precipitation amount data set

IMERG Precipitation amount September 30 2021

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We extended the IMERG (Integrated Multi-satellitE Retrievals for GPM) data set of the half-hourly estimates of the precipitation amount (intensity) in...

25 October 2024|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

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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...

6 September 2024|icdc-news-en

Extension of ASCAT Ocean Surface Wind

Metop-B ASCAT Ocean Surface Eastward Wind

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The ocean surface wind vector data set based on ASCAT satellite observations, produced by REMSS (version v02.1), has been extended. It comes with...

23 August 2024|icdc-news-en

Upgrade of GLEAM evaporation parameters v3.7 to v4.1

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Data of the Global Land Evaporation Amsterdam Model (GLEAM) have been updated from GLEAM version v3.7a to GLEAM version v4.1a and extended by data for...

16 August 2024|icdc-news-en

Extension of HadISST, CRUTEM and HadCRUT data sets

HadISST1 sea surface temperature October 2021

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We extended the monthly CRUTEM5 surface (air) temperature anomalies data set, upgraded to V5.0.2.0 and extended the monthly HadCRUT5 combined land and...

9 August 2024|icdc-news-en

Extension of sea-ice concentration data

Time series of ASI algorithm Antarctic sea-ice area anomalies

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We extended two sea-ice concentration data sets: the IFREMER-ICDC ASI-algorithm sea-ice concentration data set until 2024-07-31; this data set comes...

9 August 2024|icdc-news-en

Extension of MODIS snow cover

$AQUA MODIS monthly mean snow cover fraction 202210$

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We extended the Terra and Aqua MODIS snow cover data sets, version 6.1, until including June 2024. These global data sets come at 0.05 degree grid...

9 August 2024|icdc-news-en

Extension of IMS Snow Cover

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We extended the daily IMS Snow Cover data set of the northern hemisphere until the end of July 2024 for both grid resolutions (24 km and 4 km):

IMS...

25 July 2024|icdc-news-en

Upgrade of MODIS Primary Production (GPP) data set

Terra MODIS Collection 6.0 MOD17A2H GPP 20220415

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We upgraded our Terra-MODIS MOD17A2HGF product gross primary production (GPP) and the net photosynthesis Collection 6.1 gap-filled data set by adding...

19 July 2024|icdc-news-en

Upgrade of IMERG half-hourly precipitation amount data set

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We upgraded the entire IMERG (Integrated Multi-satellitE Retrievals for GPM) data set of the half-hourly estimates of the precipitation amount...

19 July 2024|icdc-news-en

Extension of MODIS Land surface albedo

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We extended the MODIS Collection 6.1 land surface albedo data set based on combined Terra and Aqua reflectance measurements until including May 2024...

12 July 2024|icdc-news-en

Extension of MODIS atmospheric properties

Aqua MODIS Cloud Top Temperature 20220615

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We extended the MODIS TERRA and AQUA atmospheric property data sets: temperature profiles, water vapor, precipitable water, various cloud properties...