NSIDC-0271
Global Monthly EASE-Grid Snow Water Equivalent Climatology
Richard Armstrong, Mary Jo Brodzik, Ken Knowles, Matt Savoie
Global Monthly EASE-Grid Snow Water Equivalent Climatology
2005-05-31
Boulder, Colorado USA
NSIDC: National Snow and Ice Data Center
http://nsidc.org/data/nsidc-0271.html
Investigator
Richard
Armstrong
rlax@nsidc.org
1 303 492-6199
1 303 492-2468
National Snow and Ice Data Center
National Snow and Ice Data Center
CIRES 449 UCB
University of Colorado
Boulder
Colorado
80309-0449
USA
Investigator
Mary J.
Brodzik
brodzik@nsidc.org
National Snow and Ice Data Center
National Snow and Ice Data Center
CIRES, 449 UCB
University of Colorado
Boulder
CO
80309-0449
Investigator
Kenneth
Knowles
National Snow and Ice Data Center
National Snow and Ice Data Center
CIRES, 449 UCB
University of Colorado
Boulder
CO
80309-0449
USA
Investigator
Matthew
Savoie
savoie@nsidc.org
National Snow and Ice Data Center
CIRES, 449 UCB
University of Colorado
Boulder
CO
80309-0449
USA
Technical Contact
NSIDC
User Services
nsidc@nsidc.org
1 303 492-6199 x
1 303 492-2468 x
National Snow and Ice Data Center
CIRES, 449 UCB
University of Colorado
Boulder
CO
80309-0449
USA
EARTH SCIENCE
Cryosphere
Snow/Ice
Snow Cover
EARTH SCIENCE
Cryosphere
Snow/Ice
Snow Water Equivalent
EARTH SCIENCE
Terrestrial Hydrosphere
Snow/Ice
Snow Cover
EARTH SCIENCE
Terrestrial Hydrosphere
Snow/Ice
Snow Water Equivalent
Climatology/Meteorology/Atmosphere
Climatology
EASE-Grid
Global
Historical Climatology
Northern Hemisphere
SMMR
Southern Hemisphere
SWE
AVHRR
Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer
SMMR
Scanning Multichannel Microwave Radiometer
SSM/I
Special Sensor Microwave/Imager
NIMBUS-7
NOAA POES
NOAA Polar Orbiting Environmental Satellites
SATELLITES
1978-01-01
2007-12-31
complete
-90
90
-180
180
GEOGRAPHIC REGION
GLOBAL
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English
NSIDC_DAAC
NSIDC_DAAC
NASA DAAC at the National Snow and Ice Data Center
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Data Center Contact
NSIDC
User Services
nsidc@nsidc.org
1 303 492-6199
1 303 492-2468
National Snow and Ice Data Center
CIRES, 449 UCB
University of Colorado
Boulder
CO
80309-0449
USA
NSIDC
National Snow and Ice Data Center
http://nsidc.org
Data Center Contact
NSIDC
User Services
nsidc@nsidc.org
1 303 492-6199
1 303 492-2468
National Snow and Ice Data Center
CIRES, 449 UCB
University of Colorado
Boulder
CO
80309-0449
USA
FTP
4 MB
Binary
Armstrong, R. L. and M. J. Brodzik. 2001. Recent Northern Hemisphere Snow Extent: A Comparison of Data Derived from Visible and Microwave Sensors. Geophysical Research Letters, 23(19):3673-3676.
Armstrong, R. L. and M. J. Brodzik. 2002. Hemispheric-scale Comparison and Evaluation of Passive Microwave Snow Algorithms, Annals of Glaciology, 34:38-44.
Armstrong, R. L., M. J. Brodzik, J. R. Wang, M. H. Savoie, O. Frauenfeld, T. Zhang. 2004. Solutions to the Snow Cover Mapping Anomaly over the Tibetan Plateau (poster). Eos Trans. AGU, 85(47), Fall Meet. Suppl. Abstract C31A-0282.
Brodzik, M. J. and K. W. Knowles. 2002. 'EASE-Grid: A Versatile Set of Equal-area Projections and Grids' in M. Goodchild (Ed.) Discrete Global Grids. Santa Barbara, California, USA: National Center for Geographic Information & Analysis. http://www.ncgia.ucsb.edu/globalgrids-book/ease_grid/.
Chang, A. T. C., J. L. Foster, D. K. Hall. 1987. Nimbus-7 SMMR Derived Global Snow Cover Parameters. Annals of Glaciology, 9:39-44.
Chang, A. T. C., J. L. Foster, D. K. Hall. 1996. Effects of Forest on the Snow Parameters Derived from Microwave Measurements during the BOREAS Winter Field Campaign. Hydrological Processes, 10:1565-1574.
This data set comprises global, monthly satellite-derived Snow Water Equivalent (SWE) climatologies from November 1978 through May 2007, with periodic updates released as resources permit. Global data are gridded to the Northern and Southern 25 km Equal-Area Scalable Earth Grids (EASE-Grids). Global snow water equivalent is derived from Scanning Multichannel Microwave Radiometer (SMMR) and selected Special Sensor Microwave/Imagers (SSM/I). Northern Hemisphere data are enhanced with snow cover frequencies derived from the Northern Hemisphere EASE-Grid Weekly Snow Cover and Sea Ice Extent Version 2 data (these data were not produced for the Southern Hemisphere). These data are suitable for continental-scale time-series studies of snow cover and water equivalent. The data are binary data files and PNG images, and are available via FTP.
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Northern Hemisphere EASE-Grid Weekly Snow Cover and Sea Ice Extent Version 3
CEOS IDN DIF
9.7
2005-05-31
2012-08-27
Added source for EDB.