Our Products

The Satellite Application Facility on Climate Monitoring (CM SAF) develops, produces, archives, disseminates and promotes satellite-observation-based products to support climate monitoring. The product suite mainly covers parameters related to the energy & water cycle and addresses many Essential Climate Variables as defined by GCOS (GCOS 138).

The CM SAF produces the following types of Climate Data Records (CDR), which are time series of measurements of sufficient length, consistency, and continuity to determine climate variability and change:

• Fundamental Climate Data Records (FCDR)
• Thematic Climate Data Records (TCDR)
• Interim Climate Data records (ICDR)

• Environmental Data Records (EDR)

Details on the CDR types and a possible workflow are provided here:

• CDR types
• How to work with CM SAF Climate Data

The products are available at the Web User Interface.

Overview of available and planned Climate Data Records from the CM SAF. The x-axis denotes the length of the time series. The y-axis shows the (planned) release date of the Climate Data Record. The notion within each colour bar describes (from left to right):

• Main satellite data input and kind of Climate Data Record (FCDR, TCDR, ICDR, EDR)
• Parameters included in data record
• Geographical coverage

NaS / Aug2021