High Mountain Asia ASCAT Freeze/Thaw/Melt Status, Version 1
Data set id:
HMA_FreezeThawMelt_ASCAT
DOI: 10.5067/L319IEPK63VC
This is the most recent version of these data.
Version Summary
Version Summary
Initial release
Overview
This data set contains bulk landscape frozen or thawed status over seasonally frozen land, as well as snowmelt status over glacierized areas for the High Mountain Asia region. Daily Freeze/Thaw/Melt (F/T/M) status is derived from vertically polarized (V-pol) C-band (5.255 GHz) backscatter measurements that were acquired by the Advanced Scatterometer (ASCAT) on EUMETSAT Metop-A and Metop-B satellites. Swath-ordered observations are spatially enhanced using the Scatterometer Image Reconstruction (SIR) algorithm, posted on Earth-fixed 4.45 km grids, and interpolated to a daily product from the original 3-day A.M. overpasses.
Parameter(s):
FREEZE/THAW
Platform(s):
METOP
Sensor(s):
ASCAT
Data Format(s):
PNG, HDF5, GeoTIFF
Temporal Coverage:
1 January 2009 to 12 October 2017
Temporal Resolution:
- 1 day
Spatial Resolution:
- 4.45 km
- 4.45 km
Spatial Reference System(s):
WGS 84
EPSG:4326
Spatial Coverage:
N:
44.683
S:
19.125
E:
105.577
W:
63.427
Blue outlined yellow areas on the map below indicate the spatial coverage for this data set.
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