UFZ Spatial Data Catalogue
HOLAPS satellite-based product of surface fluxes over Europe
Improving our understanding of the energy and water exchanges between the land surface and the lower atmosphere (i.e. land–atmosphere interactions), and how climate change may affect them, is crucial to predict changes in temperature and precipitation extremes. Observations of energy and water fluxes at the land surface are typically retrieved from the eddy covariance method, which presents limitations related to spatial and temporal gaps, and the non-closure of the energy and water balances. Meanwhile, soil moisture (SM) products derived from satellite data have been widely used at regional and global scales, but they are limited to capture only surface soil water content and variations. The combination of remote sensing (RS) data and modelling frameworks is called to be the solution to improve the spatial coverage and vertical resolution of land–atmosphere interactions data, ensuring the energy and water balance closure. Here, we explore the combination of remote sensing and meteorological data with a physical-based modelling framework, the High resOlution Land Atmosphere Parameters from Space (HOLAPS). We used HOLAPS to produce hourly consistent estimates of energy and water fluxes over Europe at 5 km resolution for the period 2001-2020. More information about the HOLAPS dataset can be found in García-García and Peng (2024).
The HOLAPS product is available at two temporal resolutions (hourly and daily), including outputs of evapotranspiration (Etot), latent (LE) and sensible (H) heat fluxes and soil moisture at 5 soil layers (sm). Other variables from the HOLAPS framework can be shared under request.
Please, when using the HOLAPS products refer to this dataset and the publication from García-García and Peng, 2024. For further questions about the data product and the term of use, please contact Dr. Almudena García-García ( almudena.garcia-garcia@ufz.de) or Dr. Jian Peng ( jian.peng@ufz.de)
"García-García, Almudena, and Jian Peng. "Generation and evaluation of energy and water fluxes from the HOLAPS framework: Comparison with satellite-based products during extreme hot weather." Remote Sensing of Environment (2024) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2024.114451
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1.1
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- 2025-09-23
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- On going
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role Helmholtz-Centre for Environmental Research UFZ
Almudena Garcia-Garcia
Point of contact Helmholtz-Centre for Environmental Research UFZ
Jian Peng
Point of contact
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- As needed
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Name Version application/netcdf
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HOLAPS
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daily
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remote sensing
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energy fluxes
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water fluxes
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evaporation
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soil moisture
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land-atmosphere interactions
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- Classification
- Restricted
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Creative Commons Attribution–NonCommercial–NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)
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en
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eng
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- UTF8
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- Environment
- Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere
- Begin date
- 2001-01-01
- End date
- 2021-12-31
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- Reference system identifier
- WGS 1984
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role UFZ
Digital transfer options
- OnLine resource
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Protocol Linkage Name Download
https://web.app.ufz.de/gdi-backend/download/YfXFtSgJKM5phdEKmrNbvTXRWp460k1d Dataset Download
Metadata
- File identifier
- 65187914-0b34-40a2-8240-be943bbd257f XML
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Protocol Linkage Name DOI
https://doi.org/10.48758/ufz.14683 v1.0 Satellite-based estimations of energy and water surface fluxes over Europe with HOLAPS
DOI
https://doi.org/10.48758/ufz.14677 v1.0 Satellite-based estimations of energy and water surface fluxes over Europe with HOLAPS
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https://doi.org/10.48758/ufz.14678 v1.0 Satellite-based estimations of energy and water surface fluxes over Europe with HOLAPS
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role Helmholtz-Centre for Environmental Research UFZ
Almudena Garcia-Garcia
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