Dear Users,

due to an error in the model parameters, the operational H SAF soil-moisture product H28 requires an update (details see below). The update will be implemented starting from the 23rd of September.

Change details: The downscaling (DIREX) parameters for the following Equi7Grid tiles have been re-computed due to a storage issue, where the first layer of the DIREX parameters was mistakenly applied to all layers. As a result, the ASCAT DIS SSM NRT product was limited in that equal weighting was applied to all directional inputs, rather than using the intended directional differentiation. This did not critically impact the overall product performance but may have reduced the spatial representativeness in certain areas.

EU500M_E054N000T6, EU500M_E042N000T6, EU500M_E048N000T6, EU500M_E060N000T6, EU500M_E012N018T6, EU500M_E054N024T6, EU500M_E048N024T6, EU500M_E060N024T6, EU500M_E054N030T6, EU500M_E072N018T6, EU500M_E072N030T6, EU500M_E066N012T6, EU500M_E054N036T6, EU500M_E066N024T6, EU500M_E066N006T6, EU500M_E072N012T6, EU500M_E066N018T6, EU500M_E066N030T6, EU500M_E072N024T6, EU500M_E066N036T6, EU500M_E066N000T6, EU500M_E072N006T6, EU500M_E078N006T6, EU500M_E060N030T6, EU500M_E036N042T6, EU500M_E036N036T6, EU500M_E060N036T6, EU500M_E042N006T6, EU500M_E054N048T6, EU500M_E054N042T6, EU500M_E048N030T6, EU500M_E072N000T6, EU500M_E018N006T6, EU500M_E060N018T6, EU500M_E048N036T6

Additionally, three tiles (EU500M_E054N024T6, EU500M_E048N024T6, EU500M_E060N024T6) were corrected because they were missing DIREX parameters along their southern borders.