Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) L4 Carbon Ancillary Surface Meteorological Forcing Data V001

This ancillary SMAP product contains dynamic surface meteorological forcing data. The meteorological model is derived from the Modern-Era Retrospective Analysis for Research and Applications (MERRA) data set and used as an input in the SMAP L4 Carbon algorithm. The forcing data is processed from hourly GEOS-5 files into daily values. Daily files are processed every eight days.