CM SAF Surface Radiation and Fluxes from Meteosat First and Second Generation - Edition 1 (LANDFLUX Ed. 1)

This Climate Data Record (CDR) provides the Surface Radiation Budget, Latent and Sensible Heat
Fluxes derived from the Meteosat Visible and InfraRed Imager (MVIRI) on board the Meteosat
First Generation (MFG) and the Spinning Enhanced Visible and InfraRed Imager (SEVIRI) onboard
the Meteosat Second Generation (MSG) satellites. The covered time period ranges from January
1983 to December 2020. Original thermal radiances were inter-calibrated by the European
Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT). The single
radiation components of the surface radiation budget (SRB) are derived from the thermal and
optical channels of the MVIRI and SEVIRI instruments onboard the geostationary Meteosat
satellites. All components of the SRB are derived jointly based on physical retrieval schemes
using the GeoSatClim software. Surface Latent and Sensible Heat fluxes are obtained thanks to
an adapted version of the land surface model developed by the Satellite Application Facility on
Land Surface Analysis (LSA SAF). While soil moisture and meteorological inputs are adapted from
ERA5 dataset, the radiation components of the surface radiation budget described above are
taken as model input.