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.