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wldas-derecho-sm·dataset

Western U.S. Soil Moisture During the May 2022 Derecho

WLDAS Soil Moisture Content (0-10cm)
hydrosphere NASA VEDA COG
In plain English

What it measures. Moisture in the top 10 centimeters of soil across the Western United States on May 11, 2022, around the time of the May 2022 derecho windstorm.

How it's made. Produced by the Western Land Data Assimilation System, a model that blends weather and land observations.

How & where you'd use it. Helps assess drought, fire risk, and ground conditions ahead of and during severe weather.

What's measured

wldasderecho

Coverage & cadence

  • Time span2022-05-11 → 2022-05-11
  • Spatial extent-179.147, 17.674, 179.778, 71.389
  • FormatsCOG

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

WLDAS data for the Western United States on May 11th, 2022.

Get the data

veda_access.py
# NASA VEDA — open STAC API, anonymous (cloud-optimized GeoTIFFs)
from pystac_client import Client

cat = Client.open("https://openveda.cloud/api/stac")
col = cat.get_collection("wldas-derecho-sm")
items = list(col.get_items())          # browse the analysis-ready COGs
# open an asset with rioxarray:
# import rioxarray; da = rioxarray.open_rasterio(items[0].assets["cog_default"].href)
NASA VEDA is an open STAC catalog — browse and stream the cloud-optimized GeoTIFFs anonymously (no login).