ICDC News (2025)

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

28 March 2025|icdc-news-en

Extension of MODIS Land Surface Temperature (LST)

Photo: UHH/CEN/StefanKern

We extended the Terra and Aqua MODIS land surface temperature (LST) data sets. These global data sets come at monthly and daily temporal and with 0.05...

28 March 2025|icdc-news-en

Extension of MODIS atmospheric properties

Aqua MODIS Cloud Top Temperature 20220615

Photo: UHH/CEN/StefanKern

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

28 March 2025|icdc-news-en

Extension of MODIS atmospheric properties

Aqua MODIS Aerosol Optical Depth 20220615

Photo: UHH/CEN/StefanKern

We extended the Terra and Aqua MODIS aerosol properties data sets containing parameters such as concentration of aerosol optical depth derived with...

28 February 2025|icdc-news-en

Workshop "How to create publishable netCDF data?"

As an NFDI4earth EduHub, ICDC will provide an in-person workshop on 24+25 July.

The workshop deals with creating FAIR netCDF data. We encourage the...

28 February 2025|icdc-news-en

Upgrade of MODIS land water distribution

We upgraded the MODIS/SRTM land - water distribution data set from version 6.0 to version 6.1. This global data set comes on MODIS sinusoidal grid...

14 February 2025|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...

24 January 2025|icdc-news-en

Extension of sea-ice concentration data

Time series of ASI algorithm Antarctic sea-ice area anomalies

Photo: UHH/CEN/StefanKern

We extended two sea-ice concentration data sets: the IFREMER-ICDC ASI-algorithm sea-ice concentration data set until 2024-12-31; this data set comes...

17 January 2025|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 five months. This data set is currently...

10 January 2025|icdc-news-en

Extension S3-OLCI land surface parameter datasets

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We extended the global LAI, FAPAR and Vegetation Cover Fraction data sets available at 300 m grid resolution or at 0.5 degree grid resolution - until...

10 January 2025|icdc-news-en

Extension of MODIS Forest and Vegetation Cover Fraction Dataset

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We extended the TERRA-MODIS Forest and Vegetation Cover Fraction data set, version 6.1, by data of the year 2023. With that the data are now available...

6 January 2025|icdc-news-en

Extension of GlobSnow Snow Water Equivalent

GlobSnow v3.0 Near-Real-Time product Snow Water Equivalent March 1 2024

Photo: UHH/CEN/StefanKern

The (kind of) extended the GlobSnow v3.0 Snow Water Equivalent (SWE) product by adding the near-real-time (NRT) product for years 2018 through 2024...