SM2RAIN-Climate (1998-2021): monthly global satellite rainfall dataset

SM2RAIN-Climate rainfall product is a new long-term global scale rainfall product developed by using the European Space Agency (ESA) Climate Change Initiative (CCI) soil moisture product v06.1 as input into the SM2RAIN algorithm (Brocca et al., 2014; 2019). The SM2RAIN-Climate global rainfall dataset is generated in the period 1998-2021 with monthly temporal and 1° spatial resolutions, which provide the opportunity for climatological studies.

Four different SM2RAIN-Climate datasets are provided in NetCDF format. For each dataset, the spatial grid (latitude and longitude), the rainfall values, and the mask type is defined in each NetCDF file. Two different masks are the temperature mask in data post-processing and a threshold value (percentage of missing data) taking into account missing data within a month. Depending on the application, the user can select the more suitable product.

Details on the dataset development is provided as:

Mosaffa, H., Filippucci, P., Massari, C., Ciabatta, L., & Brocca, L. (2023). SM2RAIN-Climate, a monthly global long-term rainfall dataset for climatological studies. Scientific Data, 10(1), 749. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-02654-6

Acknowledgements

The work is supported by the Open-Earth-Monitor Cyberinfrastructure project that has received funding from the European Union's Horizon Europe research and innovation programme (grant agreement no. 101059548) and by the European Space Agency through the Digital Twin Earth Hydrology project (grant no. ESA 4000129870/20/I-NB - CCN N. 1) and the 4DMED Hydrology project (grant no. ESA 4000136272/21/I-EF).