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D1

Preimesberger W. et al. (2024). C3S Soil Moisture Version v202312: Product User Guide and Specification. Document ref: C3S2_312a_Lot4.WP2-FDDP-SM-v2_202312_SM_PUGS-v5_i1.1

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Preimesberger W. et al. (2024) C3S Soil Moisture Version v202312: Algorithm Theoretical Basis Document. Document ref: C3S2_312a_Lot4.WP2-FDDP-SM-v2_202312_SM_ATBD-v5_i1.1

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Preimesberger W. et al. (2024) C3S Soil Moisture Version v202312: Product Quality Assessment Report. Document ref: C3S2_312a_Lot4.WP2-FDDP-SM-v2_202312_SM_PQAR-v5_i1.2

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Reimer, C. et al. (2024) C3S Soil Moisture Version v202312: System Quality Assurance Document. Document ref: C3S2_312a_Lot4.WP3-SQAD-SM-v2_202401_SM_System_Quality_Assurance_i1.1

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Preimesberger W. et al. (2023) C3S Soil Moisture Service: Target Requirements and Gap Analysis Document. Document ref: C3S2_312a_Lot4.WP3-TRGAD-SM-v2_202304_SM_TR_GA_i1.1

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Acronym

Definition

ABS

Scaled Absolute Values

ASCAT

Advanced Scatterometer

AMI-WS

Active Microwave Instrument - Windscat (ERS-1 & 2)

AMSR2

Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer 2

AMSR-E

Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer-Earth Observing System

ASCAT

Advanced Scatterometer (Metop)

ATBD

Algorithm Theoretical Basis Document

BfG

The German Federal Institute of Hydrology

C3S

Copernicus Climate Change Service

CCI

Climate Change Initiative

CDF

Cumulative Distribution Function

CDR

Climate Data Record

CEOS

Committee on Earth Observation Satellites

CF

Climate Forecast

ECMWF

European Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasting

ECV

Essential Climate Variable

EO

Earth Observation

EODC

Earth Observation Data Centre

ESA

European Space Agency

ERA5

ECMWF Reanalysis 5th Generation

ERA5T

ERA5 (extended forward in time)

ERS

European Remote Sensing satellite

EUMETSAT

European Meteorological Satellite

FK

Fligner-Killeen

FRM

Fiducial Reference Measurement

FRM4SM

Fiducial Reference Measurements for Soil Moisture

FY

Feng-Yun

GCOS

Global Climate Observing System

GEO

Group on Earth Observations

GLDAS

Global Land Data Assimilation System

GPCP

Global Precipitation Climatology Project

GPI

Grid Point Index

GPM

Global Precipitation Measurement

GEWEX

Global Energy and Water Cycle Experiment

GHRSST

Group for High Resolution Sea Surface Temperature

H SAF

EUMETSAT Satellite Application Facility on Support to Operational Hydrology and Water Management

IAA

Interannual Anomaly

ICDR

Interim Climate Data Record

ISMN

International Soil Moisture Network

IQR

Interquartile Range

KPI

Key Performance Indicator

L2

Retrieved environmental variables at the same resolution and location as the level 1 (EO) source.

L3

Level 3

LPRM

Land Parameter Retrieval Model

LPV

Land Product Validation

LSM

Land Surface Model

MetOp

Meteorologivcal Operational Satellites

MIRAS

Microwave Imaging Radiometer using Aperture Synthesis

NDVI

Normalised Differenced Vegetation Index

NetCDF

Network Common Data Format

NRT

Near Real Time

PQAD

Product Quality Assurance Document

PQAR

Product Quality Assessment Report

PUG

Product User Guide

PVIR

Product Validation and Inter-comparison Report

PVP

Product Validation Plan

QA

Quality Assurance

QA4SM

Quality Assurance for Soil Moisture

QA4EO

Quality Assurance framework for Earth Observation

RFI

Radio Frequency Interference

SM

Soil Moisture

SMMR

Scanning Multichannel Microwave Radiometer

SMAP

Soil Moisture Active Passive

SMOS

Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity

SNR

Signal to Noise Ratio

SQAD

System Quality Assurance Document

SSM

Surface Soil Moisture

SSM/I

Special Sensor Microwave Imager

SSP

Sensor Sampling Period

STA

Short Term Anomaly

SWI

Soil Water Index

TCA

Triple Collocation Analysis

TCDR

Thematic Climate Data Record

TMI

TRMM Microwave Imager

TRGAD

Target Requirements and Gap Analysis Document

TRMM

Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission

TU Wien

Vienna University of Technology

ubRMSD

unbiased Root Mean Square Difference

UNFCCC

United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change

UTC

Coordinated Universal Time

VOD

Vegetation Optical Depth

WGS

World Geodetic System

WK

Wilkoxon Rank-Test

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