Dry, cracked soil. Credit: Heiko Küverling

New H SAF Soil Moisture product on EUMETCast soon

 

Photo credit: Heiko Küverling

Dry, cracked soil. Credit: Heiko Küverling
Dry, cracked soil. Credit: Heiko Küverling

New H SAF Soil Moisture product, H26, will be available on EUMETCast from 24 March 2022.

Last Updated

04 October 2022

Published on

10 March 2022

This operational product is the Metop ASCAT NRT Root Zone Soil Moisture Profile Index at 10km resolution. It supplies the analysed liquid soil moisture profile index for four different soil layers (covering the root zone from the surface to ~3 metres), generated by the ECMWF soil moisture assimilation system at 24 hour time steps. It takes the heritage from H14 which is at lower resolution, with longer timeliness. (Note: H14 is planned to be discontinued in one year from the H26 release).

The product, in netCDF format, will be distributed on EUMETCast, as follows:

EUMETCast Europe

Channel: E1B-SAF-5
Multicast address: 224.223.222.28
PID: 500

EUMETCast Africa

Channel: A1C-SAF-5
Multicast address: 224.223.225.3
PID: 100

EUMETCast Terrestrial

Channel: T01-SAF
Multicast address: 232.223.222.67

Example file name: S-HSAF-h26_2022021500_R01.nc

Users already subscribed to receive H SAF products via EUMETCast will receive this new product automatically. Other users wishing to receive this product should register via our Earth Observation Portal (EOP).

For more information, contact our User Service Helpdesk.