-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (1.) GENERAL DATASET INFORMATION -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SPATIAL RESOLUTION: 9km DATA FORMAT: Binary SPATIAL PROJECTION: a global EASE-Grid (Version 2) format (3856 columns and 1624 rows consisting of 32-bit float) TEMPORAL EXTENT: 2016 - 2021 SPATIAL EXTENT: Global -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (2.) EASE-Grid format information -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- https://nsidc.org/data/user-resources/help-center/guide-ease-grids https://nsidc.org/data/user-resources/help-center/does-nsidc-have-tools-geolocating-and-displaying-ease-grid-data-sets -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (3.) File naming convention -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [YEAR]_[ET_component].zip ET_component: Etot = Terrestrial ET transp = transpiration from vegetation esoil = water evaporation from the soil eint = evaporation of canopy intercepted precipitation -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (4.) MAIN REFERENCES -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Youngwook Kim, Hotaek Park, John S. Kimball, Andreas Colliander, Matthew F. McCabe (2023) Global estimates of daily evapotranspiration using SMAP surface and root-zone soil moisture Remote Sensing of Environment, 298, 113803. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2023.113803 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------