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Dear Binita, Thank you for contacting the NSIDC DAAC. I would recommend the Soil Moisture Active Passive Data (SMAP) data products for soil moisture data. You can explore the various SMAP data products here: [https://nsidc.org/data/smap]. We do not currently archive any evaporation data products at ...

On Monday August 8, 2022 the SMAP observatory entered a safe-mode which is designed to maintain its essential functions but pauses science data acquisition. The Project team is investigating the cause of the anomaly and actively working on resuming operations and continued science data acquisition. ...

Hi vds_downloader,

The NSIDC recently experienced an unplanned outage. Our site is now working normally and you should be able to complete your download. Please let me know if you come across any other issues with the download.

Kind regards,
Amy

Hi etis, It looks like the reason that the .h5 is failing to read in the correct location is that the CRS information is not included in the metadata in a way that QGIS can read it/interpret it. From what I have read, reprojecting an .h5 file in QGIS is tricky. I would recommend using Earthdata sear...

There are a few reasons that the soil moisture data values in SMAP Level-4 data products may vary from what you expect in a particular region. The first step a data user should take in investigating apparently anomalous values is to look at the rich quality information and other data flags contained...

Hi etis, What method did you use for importing the data into QGIS? Also, could you include a screenshot to demonstrate the location issue? I suspect that the reason for this issue is because the data are in a 1D array and not a 2D array. It might be worth re-downloading the data reformatted as GeoTI...

The two grids are based on different map projections. The polar stereographic projection was initially used with ice concentration products developed at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) and has been retained for historical consistency. It specifies a projection plane tangent to the earth ...

Hi Ippolita, The HDF EOS Tools and Information Center has a webpage with example code for various NSIDC data sets - http://hdfeos.org/zoo/index_openNSIDC_Examples.php#MODIS. This webpage also contains some more generic example code for using HDF in MATLAB - https://www.hdfeos.org/examples/index.php....