SMAP L3 Radar Northern Hemisphere Daily 3 km EASE-Grid Freeze/Thaw State, Version 3
This Level-3 (L3) product provides a daily composite of Northern Hemisphere landscape freeze/thaw conditions retrieved by the Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) radar from 6:00 a.m. descending and 6:00 p.m. ascending half-orbit passes. SMAP L-band backscatter data are used to derive freeze/thaw data, which are then resampled to an Earth-fixed, Northern Hemisphere azimuthal 3 km Equal-Area Scalable Earth Grid, Version 2.0 (EASE-Grid 2.0).
This is the most recent version of these data.
Changes to this version include:
- Transitioned to Validated-Stage 2
- Uses SPL1CS0 V3 Validated data as input
- Using full swath except for nadir-anomaly flagged areas to provide better coverage
- Resolved some flag and fillValue errors
For the full major and minor version history, go to https://nsidc.org/data/smap/data_versions.
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As a condition of using these data, you must cite the use of this data set using the following citation. For more information, see our Use and Copyright Web page.
Dunbar, R. S., X. Xu, A. Colliander, C. Derksen, K. C. McDonald, E. Podest, E. G. Njoku, J. S. Kimball, and Y. Kim. 2016. SMAP L3 Radar Northern Hemisphere Daily 3 km EASE-Grid Freeze/Thaw State, Version 3. [Indicate subset used]. Boulder, Colorado USA. NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center. doi: https://doi.org/10.5067/CPSA0M496MGB. [Date Accessed].