Leaf moisture content (live-fuel moisture content) at global scale from passive microwave satellite observations of vegetation optical depth (VOD2LFMC)

<p><strong>Related paper:</strong> <a href="https://hess.copernicus.org/preprints/hess-2022-121/">Forkel et al. (2022)</a></p> <p>The VOD2LFMC dataset contains estimates of leaf moisture content as defined as live-fuel moisture content (LFMC) derived from passive microwave satellite observation of vegetation optical depth (VOD). LFMC is defined as the fresh mass of a leaf over the dry mass and is expressed in %:</p> <p><span class="math-tex">\(LFMC = {m_{fresh}-m_{dry}\over m_{dry}}*100\%\)</span></p> <p>LFMC was estimated from the <a href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.2575599">VODCA version 1</a> dataset of Ku-band VOD using the model approach &ldquo;B&rdquo; as described in Forkel et al. (2022).</p> <p>The file VOD2LFMC-B_v01_2000-2017.zip contains (unzipped ~ 57 GB):</p> <ul> <li>daily global data per month netCDF files</li> <li>a README file</li> <li>Ancillary file VOD2LFMC-B_v01_support-by-obs.nc</li> </ul> <p>Grid, time and variable definitions:</p> <ul> <li> <p>Grid-name: Geographic Lat/Lon</p> </li> <li> <p>Pixel-size: 1/4 degrees</p> </li> <li> <p>Size-x: 1440</p> </li> <li> <p>Size-y: 557</p> </li> <li> <p>Time period: February 2000 &ndash; July 2017</p> </li> <li> <p>Temporal resolution: daily</p> </li> <li> <p>Variable: Live-fuel moisture content (LFMC) in %</p> </li> <li> <p>Valid-range: 0-400%</p> </li> </ul> <p>&nbsp;</p>