Dataset name:
European Space Agency Climate Change Initiative Surface Soil Moisture SWI Combined Product (ESA-CCI)

Varialbe name: 
SWI (Volumetric Soil Water Index T-Value=5)

Reference of original data:
http://www.esa-soilmoisture-cci.org
Liu, Y.Y., Dorigo, W.A., Parinussa, R.M., de Jeu, R.A.M. , Wagner, W., McCabe, M.F., Evans, J.P., van Dijk, A.I.J.M. (2012). Trend-preserving blending of passive and active microwave soil moisture retrievals, Remote Sensing of Environment, 123, 280-297, doi: 10.1016/j.rse.2012.03.014
Liu, Y.Y., Parinussa, R.M., Dorigo, W.A., De Jeu, R.A.M., Wagner, W., van Dijk, A.I.J.M., McCabe, M.F., & Evans, J.P. (2011): Developing an improved soil moisture dataset by blending passive and active microwave satellite based retrievals. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 15, 425-436
Wagner, W., W. Dorigo, R. de Jeu, D. Fernandez, J. Benveniste, E. Haas, M. Ertl (2012): Fusion of active and passive microwave observations to create an Essential Climate Variable data record on soil moisture. ISPRS Annals of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, Volume I-7, 2012. XXII ISPRS Congress, 25 August – 01 September 2012, Melbourne, Australia"

Downloaded site:
ftp://wci.earth2observe.eu/data/primary/public/tuwien/ESACCI-SOILMOISTURE-L3S-SWIV-COMBINED-v02.2
(data also available at http://www.esa-soilmoisture-cci.org/)

Downloaded Date:
Mar 21, 2016

Downloaded by:
Alberto Martinez-de la Torre
Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, Wallingford, UK

Name and Version of original source:
    CCI SM v02.2

Start date:
November 1978

End date:
December 2014

Temporal resolution:
daily

Spatial resolution:
0.25x0.25 degree

Unit: 
m3/m3

Data format: 
NetCDF