AMSR-E/Aqua 5-Day L3 Global Snow Water Equivalent EASE-Grids

Data Contributors

KELLY, RICHARD
FOSTER, JAMES
TEDESCO, MARCO

Parameters

SNOW WATER EQUIVALENT

Instruments

AMSR-E : ADVANCED MICROWAVE SCANNING RADIOMETER-EOS

The Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer - Earth Observing System (AMSR-E) instrument on the NASA Earth Observing System (EOS) Aqua satellite provides global passive microwave measurements of terrestrial, oceanic, and atmospheric variables for the investigation of water and energy cycles.

These Level-3 Snow Water Equivalent (SWE) data sets contain SWE data and quality assurance flags mapped to Northern and Southern Hemisphere 25 km Equal-Area Scalable Earth Grids (EASE-Grids). Data are stored in Hierarchical Data Format - Earth Observing System (HDF-EOS) format, and are available from 19 June 2002 to the present via FTP, CD-ROM, DLT, or DVD.

Data Citation

The following examples show how to cite the use of these data sets in a publication. List the principal investigators, year of data set release, data set title and version number, dates of the data you used (for example, March to June 2004), publisher: NSIDC, and digital media.

Kelly, R. E. J., Alfred T. C. Chang, James L. Foster, and Marco Tedesco. 2004, updated every five days. AMSR-E/Aqua 5-day 3 Global Snow Water Equivalent EASE-Grids V002, [list the dates of the data used]. Boulder, Colorado USA: National Snow and Ice Data Center. Digital media.