SMAP L3 Radiometer Global Daily 36 km EASE-Grid Soil Moisture, Version 2

This Level-3 (L3) soil moisture product provides a composite of daily estimates of global land surface conditions retrieved by the Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) passive microwave radiometer. Ancillary data include soil temperature, vegetation water content, and vegetation opacity and albedo. Input SMAP L-band brightness temperatures are resampled to a global, cylindrical 36 km Equal-Area Scalable Earth Grid, Version 2.0 (EASE-Grid 2.0). Note: These data are beta release quality, meaning that they have not undergone full validation and may still contain significant errors. In addition, the data field that indicates retrieval quality, called retrieval qual flag, was found to contain incorrect information. Users are advised to ignore this data field in Version 1 of this product.