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clms_wb_global_1km_10daily_v2·dataset

Worldwide standing-water map, every 10 days (Copernicus)

CLMS WB Global 1km 10-daily V2
hydrosphere ESA ESA Copernicus COGNetCDF
In plain English

What it measures. Identifies areas of the planet permanently covered by water, refreshed every ten days at a broad 1-kilometre resolution.

How it's made. Built from the SPOT-VEGETATION and PROBA-V satellite instruments and delivered by the EU's Copernicus Land Monitoring Service.

How & where you'd use it. Useful for keeping an eye on the global extent of lakes and inland water over time, a long-term reference for hydrology and climate work.

What's measured

CopernicusCLMSWBWater Bodiesinland waterglobal10-daily1kmSPOTVEGETATIONPROBA-V

Coverage & cadence

  • Time span1998-04-01 → 2018-03-31
  • Spatial extent-179.9999999, -59.9955357, 179.9955357, 80.0044643
  • FormatsCOG, NetCDF

What you can do with it

  • Follow rainfall, floods and surface-water extent
  • Track soil moisture and the onset of drought
  • Monitor lakes, rivers and groundwater storage
Official description

Provides information about the surface extent covered by water on a permanent basis at global scale in the spatial resolution of 1 km, available every 10 days.

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_wb_global_1km_10daily_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.