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clms_wb_global_300m_10daily_v1·dataset

Global permanent-water map, 10-day historical record (Copernicus)

CLMS WB Global 300m 10-daily V1
hydrosphere ESA ESA Copernicus COGNetCDF
In plain English

What it measures. Maps the parts of the world covered by water on a permanent basis at 300-metre detail, with a new snapshot every ten days.

How it's made. Produced from the PROBA-V satellite by the EU's Copernicus Land Monitoring Service, covering the years 2014 through 2020.

How & where you'd use it. A historical archive for studying how inland water bodies behaved across that period, useful for water resource and environmental analysis.

What's measured

CopernicusCLMSWBWater Bodiesinland waterglobal10-daily300mPROBA-V

Coverage & cadence

  • Time span2014-01-01 → 2020-12-31
  • Spatial extent-179.9999999, -59.9985119, 179.9985119, 80.0014881
  • 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. The data are available at global scale in the spatial resolution of 300 m, available every 10 days, and with the temporal extent from 2014 to 2020.

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_300m_10daily_v1"],   # 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.