Circumpolar Scaling Layer for downscaling of Scatterometer derived soil moisture with links to geotiff images and NetCDF files (2005-01 to 2011-12)

• Main Authors: Widhalm, Barbara, Sabel, Daniel, Hasenauer, Stefan, Doubkova, Marcela, Bartsch, Annett
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 2014
• Subjects: Arctic; Changing Permafrost in the Arctic and its Global Effects in the 21st Century; File content; File format; File size; PAGE21; pan-Arctic; Uniform resource locator/link to file; Asar; permafrost
• Online Access: https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.839818; https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.839818

This dataset provides scaling information applicable to satellite derived coarse resolution surface soil moisture datasets following the approach by Wagner et al. (2008). It is based on ENVISAT ASAR data and can be utilized to apply the Metop ASCAT dataset (25 km) for local studies as well as to assess the representativeness of in-situ measurement sites and thus their potential for upscaling. The approach based on temporal stability (Wagner et al. 2008) consists of the assessment of the validity of the coarse resolution datasets at medium resolution (1 km, product is the so called 'scaling layer').