AMSR-E/Aqua Monthly 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 example shows how to cite the use of this data set in a publication. List the principal investigators, year of data set release, data set title and version, dates of data you used (March 2004 in this example), publishers (NSIDC), and digital media.

Kelly, R. E. J., Alfred T. C. Chang, James L. Foster, and Marco Tedesco. 2004, updated monthly. AMSR-E/Aqua Monthly L3 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.