Atlas of Multi-Source Earth Observations over Extra-Tropical Cyclone (2010-2020) for ESA MAXSS Project

The primary objective of the ESA Marine Atmosphere eXtreme Satellite Synergy (MAXSS) project is to provide guidance and innovative methodologies to maximize the synergetic use of available Earth Observation data (satellite, in situ) to improve understanding about the multi-scale dynamical characteristics of extreme air-sea interaction.

This dataset, produced in the frame of MAXSS project, provides multi-variate observations for extra-tropical cyclones (ETC), for a selection of storm tracks extracted from the wind vorticity at 850mb of ERA5 reanalysis during the period 2010-2020. The observations are taken from more than 35 satellite, numerical model and in situ sources, providing the inner and surface ocean conditions for a comprehensive range of parameters (sea surface height, surface winds, waves, precipitation, temperature, salinity, ocean colour, ...) before, during and after the storm passage. Different colocation radii and time windows are used depending on the parameter and observation dataset.

The assembled data are stored in a standardized NetCDF4 file format and organised per basin, year, and storm name to ease data manipulation for users that are not used to work with this wealth of data.