NSIDC-0477
MEaSUREs Global Record of Daily Landscape Freeze/Thaw Status
Kim, Y., J. S. Kimball, J. Glassy, and K. C. McDonald.
MEaSUREs Global Record of Daily Landscape Freeze/Thaw Status
2013-01-07
Boulder, Colorado USA
NSIDC DAAC: NASA DAAC at the National Snow and Ice Data Center
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http://nsidc.org/data/nsidc-0477.html
Investigator
Youngwook
Kim
youngwook.kim@ntsg.umt.edu
The University of Montana
Numerical Terradynamic Simulation Group (NTSG)
The University of Montana
Missoula
MT
59812
USA
Investigator
John
S.
Kimball
johnk@ntsg.umt.edu
University of Montana
Numerical Terradynamic Simulation Group (NTSG)
Missoula
MT
59812
USA
Investigator
Joe
Glassy
joe.glassy@ntsg.umt.edu
The University of Montana
Numerical Terradynamic Simulation Group (NTSG)
The University of Montana
Missoula
MT
59812
USA
Investigator
Kyle
C.
McDonald
kyle.mcdonald@jpl.nasa.gov
California Institute of Technology
Jet Propulsion Lab
JPL
California Institute of Technology
4800 Oak Grove Drive
Pasadena
CA
91109-8099
USA
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EARTH SCIENCE
Cryosphere
Snow/Ice
Freeze/Thaw
EARTH SCIENCE
Terrestrial Hydrosphere
Snow/Ice
Freeze/Thaw
Climatology/Meteorology/Atmosphere
AMSR-E
Diurnal Freeze/thaw
Freeze
Frozen Ground
Frozen Soil
intermittently frozen ground
SMMR
SSM/I
Thaw
AMSR-E
Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer-EOS
SMMR
Scanning Multichannel Microwave Radiometer
SSM/I
Special Sensor Microwave/Imager
AQUA
Earth Observing System, AQUA
DMSP 5D-2/F11
Defense Meteorological Satellite Program-F11
DMSP 5D-2/F13
Defense Meteorological Satellite Program-F13
DMSP 5D-2/F8
Defense Meteorological Satellite Program-F8
NIMBUS-7
1979-01-01
2010-12-31
2002-06-19
2011-09-27
complete
-86.7167
86.7167
-179.9999
179.9999
GEOGRAPHIC REGION
GLOBAL
25 km
25km
12:00:00
MEASURES
Making Earth System Data Records for Use in Research Environments
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Boulder
CO
80309-0449
USA
NSIDC_MEaSUREs
Making Earth System Data Records for Use in Research Environments
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USA
FTP
25 KB
GIF
FTP
200 KB
HDF
FTP
50 KB
GeoTIFF
FTP
3.2 MB
Binary
http://nsidc.org/data/docs/measures/nsidc0477-freeze-thaw-v2/images/figure1.gif
Sample Image
Daily Composite AM/PM Freeze/Thaw Status for 9 April 2004
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Kim, Y., J.S. Kimball, K.C. McDonald and J. Glassy, 2010. MEaSUREs Global Record of Daily Landscape Freeze/Thaw Status, Version 1 [1988 to 2007]. Boulder Colorado USA: NASA DAAC at the National Snow and Ice Data Center. http://nsidc.org/data/nsidc-0477.html.
Kim, Y., J. S. Kimball, K. C. McDonald, and J. Glassy. 2011. Developing a Global Data Record of Daily Landscape Freeze/Thaw Status using Satellite Microwave Remote Sensing. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing.
Kim, Y., J.S. Kimball, K. Zhang, and K.C. McDonald, 2012. Satellite Detection of Increasing Northern Hemisphere Non-Frozen Seasons from 1979 to 2008: Implications for Regional Vegetation Growth. Remote Sensing of Environment 121, 472-487.
McDonald, K.C, and J.S. Kimball, 2005. Hydrological Application of Remote Sensing: Freeze-thaw States using both Active and Passive Microwave Sensors. Encyclopedia of Hydrological Sciences. Part 5. Remote Sensing. M.G. Anderson and J.J. McDonnell (Eds.), John Wiley & Sons Ltd. doi: 10.1002/0470848944.hsa059a.
The MEaSUREs Global Record of Daily Landscape Freeze/Thaw Status Version 2 product is a global record of the daily freeze/thaw (FT) status of the landscape derived from satellite observations of radiometric brightness temperatures. Two FT records are provided: a Scanning Multichannel Microwave Radiometer (SMMR) and Special Sensor Microwave/Imager (SSM/I) record for the years 1979 to 2010; and an Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer - Earth Observing System (AMSR-E) record for the years 2002 to 2011.
Note: These data are considered provisional pending a review by the MEaSUREs program. Once the data have been reviewed, this statement will be removed from this documentation.
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