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SnowEx20 Grand Mesa Autumn 2019 Snow Pits, Version 1 (SNEX20_A19_SP)
Data set:
SNEX20_A19_SP
This is the most recent version of these data.
Version Summary
Initial release
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Overview

This data set contains snow pit measurements obtained as part of the SnowEx 2020 campaign at the Grand Mesa, Colorado, USA site in Autumn 2019. 21 locations were visited for snow pit observations. Some snow pit measurements are incomplete due to shallow or discontinuous snow cover.
Parameter(s):
LIQUID WATER CONTENT SNOW DENSITY SNOW/ICE TEMPERATURE SNOW STRATIGRAPHY
Platform(s):
GROUND-BASED OBSERVATIONS
Sensor(s):
A2 Photonic_WISe, MICROSCOPES, SNOW DENSITY CUTTER, THERMOMETERS
Data Format(s):
JPEG, CSV, Excel
Temporal Coverage:
4 November 2019 to 6 November 2019
Temporal Resolution:
Not applicable
Spatial Resolution:
Not applicable
Not applicable
Spatial Reference System(s):
WGS 84 / UTM zone 12N
EPSG:32612
Spatial Coverage:
N:
39.046174
S:
39.008296
E:
-108.150626
W:
-108.201372
Yellow areas on the map below indicate the spatial coverage for this data set.

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All data from the NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center (NSIDC DAAC) can be accessed directly from our HTTPS file system, using wget or curl. Basic command line instructions are provided in the article below. 
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