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ECMWF is a contributor to the core soil moisture product and is represented in the H SAF Steering Group and the Project Team.

Visiting Scientist reports:

• Gruhier C., Albergel C., de Rosnay P., Hasenauer S., Zeiner B., 2010: "Comparison between H SAF large scale surface soil moisture, H SAF assimilated soil moisture and SMOS level 2 soil moisture". (H SAF_CDOP_VS11_02.pdf)
  
• Pellarin T., de Rosnay P., Albergel C., Abdalla S., Al Bitar A., 2013:  "Root-zone soil moisture index complementary validation at global scale based on triple collocation method. Comparison with State-Of-The-Art global scale root-zone soil moisture products." (H SAF_CDOP2_VS12_02.pdf)
  

  
  

  
  

ECMWF H SAF products:

• SM-DAS-2 (H14): ASCAT near-real-time root zone soil wetness index product description and previews
• Presentation of SM-DAS-2, SM-DAS-3 and future H SAF root-zone soil moisture products
• How to read and plot SM-DAS-2 and SM-DAS-3

• Converting grib to netCDF with CDO

• SM-DAS-2 / H14 documentation:
  • Product User Manual (SAF_HSAF_PUM-14.pdf)
  • Algorithm Theoretical Baseline Document (SAF_HSAF_ATBD-14_0_2.pdf)
  • Product Validation Report (SAF_HSAF_PVR-14.pdf)
  • Data Output Format (SAF_HSAF_DOF_H14_v1.2.pdf)