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clms_lst_global_5km_hourly_v2·dataset

Hourly land-surface temperature, 2021-present (Copernicus)

CLMS LST Global 5km hourly V2
land ESA ESA Copernicus active COGNetCDF
In plain English

What it measures. Reports the surface temperature of the ground every hour for pixels across the globe, continuing the record from January 2021 onward.

How it's made. Built by ESA Copernicus from geostationary satellite thermal observations at roughly 5-kilometer resolution.

How & where you'd use it. Supports ongoing weather modeling, drought and heat monitoring, and tracking how land temperatures change through the day in recent years.

What's measured

CopernicusCLMSLSTLand Surface Temperaturethermal infraredglobalhourly5km

Coverage & cadence

  • Time span2021-01-18 → ongoing
  • Spatial extent-179.9999999, -79.9776824, 179.9776872, 80.0223214
  • FormatsCOG, NetCDF

What you can do with it

  • Track deforestation, fire scars and land-cover change
  • Monitor crop and vegetation health (NDVI/EVI)
  • Map how built-up vs. green an area is over time
Official description

Provides hourly land surface temperature from geostationary sensors observations. The data are available at global scale in the spatial resolution of about 5 km and cover the period from January 2021 onwards.

Get the data

copernicus_access.py
# ESA Copernicus Data Space — open STAC API (free account)
from pystac_client import Client

cat = Client.open("https://stac.dataspace.copernicus.eu/v1")
search = cat.search(
    collections=["clms_lst_global_5km_hourly_v2"],   # add _cog or _nc for a format variant
    bbox=(-10, 35, 30, 60),             # your area (W,S,E,N)
    datetime="2024-01-01/2024-12-31",
)
items = list(search.items())            # then read assets with rioxarray / xarray
Browsing the Copernicus STAC is open; downloading bytes needs a free Copernicus Data Space account.