SMOS Level 3 Soil Freeze and Thaw Service (SMOS L3FT)

The SMOS FT Service generates a daily information on the Northern hemisphere soil state using as input data the SMOS daily gridded level 3 brightness temperatures (data provided byCentre Aval de Traitement des Données SMOS - CATDS). The Service uses two ancillary datasets: ECMWF 2m air temperature data and NSIDC IMS snow cover data. The data are provided in The Equal-Area Scalable Earth Grid (EASE2-Grid) at 25 km x 25 km resolution. The product start date is July 1st 2010.