The main objective of the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) is to directly respond to the requirement to continue the provision of free and open access to quality-assured global and regional Essential Climate Variable (ECV) products derived from in-situ and remotely sensed Earth Observation (EO) data.
The proposed service focuses on Terrestrial ECVs in the Land Hydrology and Cryosphere (LHC) domain and will operationally produce and deliver or broker access to a suite of Climate Data Records (CDRs) and Interim Climate Data Records (ICDR) across the thematic ECV domains of Soil Moisture, Glaciers, Lakes, and Ice Sheets and Ice Shelves. Each thematic domain will deliver a continuation of the products currently provided in the C3S 312b Lot 4 service.
