News and notifications

Dear users, we inform you that snow products H34 (Snow detection (snow mask) by VIS/NIR of SEVIRI) and H35 (Snow detection (snow mask) and Effective snow cover by VIS/NIR of AVHRR) are now operational

7^th Satellite Soil Moisture and Application Workshop

This year’s soil moisture workshop will be hosted by Michigan State University. It will take place 4-6 June 2024 in East Lansing, Michigan.
https://events.anr.msu.edu/soilmoisture

Dear users, we inform you that, product H120 SSM ASCAT DR2021 EXT TS12.5 has been updated and it now covers the period (2021-01-01 until 2024-01-04).

A Visiting Scientist Activity at Middle East Technical University, Ankara - Turkey and supported by the Finnish Meteorological Institute is available and funded by H SAF. The activity will focus on Improving the accuracy of fractional snow cover retrieval over forested mountainous regions using ML and Deep Learning algorithms. The total duration of the activity is 6 months. Further information regarding the application procedure, requirements, salary and activity can be found in the documentation. Application deadline is 28 February 2024 (or until the positions is filled)

Dear users, due to importants maintenance activities on our internal infrastructure, starting from the 25th until the 27th of October disruptions could occur to the FTP access, the products ordering service and the access to the HSAF website. We are sorry for the inconvenience

Dear users, a problem was detected in the H26 soil moisture files for 28th and 29th September 2023. The problem has been resolved and the corrupted files have now been overwritten with the correct versions. Apologies for the inconvenience

Dear users, we inform you that, product H120 SSM ASCAT DR2021 EXT TS12.5 has been updated and it now covers the period (2021-01-01 until 2023-09-01).

Dear Users, due to the limited bandwidth on the EUMETCast African channel,starting from the 12th September 2023, the IODC H SAF products:

• H63 - Precipitation rate at ground by GEO/IR supported by LEO/MW IODC
• H90 - Accumulated Precipitation at ground by blended MW and IR IODC;

will not be distributed on Eumetcast Africa anymore.

The Data record Metop ASCAT Surface Soil Moisture Climate Data Record v7 Extension 12.5 km sampling (H120) has been updated and it now covers the period (2021-01-01 until 2023-05-31).

A Visiting Scientist Activity at TU Wien, Vienna, Austria is available and funded by H SAF. The activity will focus on developing workflows for climate normal and anomaly calculation from H SAF surface soil moisture. The activity will be carried out during the period June 2023 – May 2024 within the Soil Moisture development and Application tools clusters under the supervision of Mariette Vreugdenhil (TU Wien). Short research stays at TU Wien are foreseen. Further information regarding the application procedure, requirements, salary and activity can be found in the documentation. The open call for the Visiting Scientist activity is still open until June 15th!