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Leaf moisture content (live-fuel moisture content) at global scale from passive microwave satellite observations of vegetation optical depth (VOD2LFMC)

Forkel, Matthias; Schmidt, Luisa; Zotta, Ruxandra-Maria; Dorigo, Wouter; Yebra, Marta

Related paper: Forkel et al. (2022)

The VOD2LFMC dataset contains estimates of leaf moisture content as defined as live-fuel moisture content (LFMC) derived from passive microwave satellite observation of vegetation optical depth (VOD). LFMC is defined as the fresh mass of a leaf over the dry mass and is expressed in %:

\(LFMC = {m_{fresh}-m_{dry}\over m_{dry}}*100\%\)

LFMC was estimated from the VODCA version 1 dataset of Ku-band VOD using the model approach “B” as described in Forkel et al. (2022).

The file VOD2LFMC-B_v01_2000-2017.zip contains (unzipped ~ 57 GB):

  • daily global data per month netCDF files
  • a README file
  • Ancillary file VOD2LFMC-B_v01_support-by-obs.nc

Grid, time and variable definitions:

  • Grid-name: Geographic Lat/Lon

  • Pixel-size: 1/4 degrees

  • Size-x: 1440

  • Size-y: 557

  • Time period: February 2000 – July 2017

  • Temporal resolution: daily

  • Variable: Live-fuel moisture content (LFMC) in %

  • Valid-range: 0-400%

 

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  • Forkel, M., Schmidt, L., Zotta, R.-M., Dorigo, W., and Yebra, M.: Estimating leaf moisture content at global scale from passive microwave satellite observations of vegetation optical depth, Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci. Discuss. [preprint], https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-2022-121, in review, 2022.

  • Moesinger, Leander, Dorigo, Wouter, De Jeu, Richard, Van der Schalie, Robin, Scanlon, Tracy, Teubner, Irene, & Forkel, Matthias. (2019). The Global Long-term Microwave Vegetation Optical Depth Climate Archive VODCA (1.0) [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.2575599

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Keyword(s):
LFMC VOD Ku-band LAI data set satellite fuel moisture fire earth observation
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  • FirEUrisk - FIREURISK - DEVELOPING A HOLISTIC, RISK-WISE STRATEGY FOR EUROPEAN WILDFIRE MANAGEMENT (101003890)
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