Leaf moisture content (live-fuel moisture content) at global scale from passive microwave satellite observations of vegetation optical depth (VOD2LFMC)
- 1. Technische Universität Dresden
- 2. Technische Universität Wien
- 3. Fenner School of Environment and Society, School of Engineering
Description
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:
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Grid-name: Geographic Lat/Lon
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Pixel-size: 1/4 degrees
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Size-x: 1440
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Size-y: 557
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Time period: February 2000 – July 2017
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Temporal resolution: daily
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Variable: Live-fuel moisture content (LFMC) in %
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Valid-range: 0-400%
Files
VOD2LFMC-B_v01_2000-2017.zip
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Additional details
Related works
- Is derived from
- Journal article: 10.5194/hess-2022-121 (DOI)
Funding
References
- 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