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Description

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).

Version Description

See https://nsidc.org/data/amsre/version-history

Product Summary

Platforms
Aqua
Instruments
AMSR-E
Spatial Extent

N: 90 S: -90 E: 180 W: -180

Spatial Resolution
25 Kilometers x 25 Kilometers
Spatial Reference System(s)
Multiple EPSG codes (see User Guide)
Location
GLOBAL
Coordinate System
CARTESIAN
Granule Spatial Representation
CARTESIAN
Temporal Extent
2002-06-19 to 2011-10-03
Temporal Resolution
1 Day
Concept ID
C3235714992-NSIDC_CPRD
Data State
COMPLETE
Number of Files/Granules
3364
Processing Level
3
Published
Science Keywords
Snow Water Equivalent ,
Snow Water Equivalent

Citation

Citation is critically important for dataset documentation and discovery. This dataset is openly shared, without restriction, in accordance with the EOSDIS Data Use and Citation Guidance.

Copy Citation

Tedesco, M., Kelly, R., Foster, J., & Chang, A. (2004). AMSR-E/Aqua Daily L3 Global Snow Water Equivalent EASE-Grids, Version 2 [Dataset]. NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center. https://doi.org/10.5067/AMSR-E/AE_DYSNO.002 Date Accessed: 2026-08-21

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The compounding effects of agricultural expansion and snow drought on lake urmias drying crisis Shahbazi, Afshin, Aydin, Yusuf, Semiz, Guluzar Duygu, Torun, Elifnaz, Vaheddoost, Babak, Beirami, Neda, Unal, Alper, Madani, Kaveh, AghaKouchak, Amir Snow Water Equivalent, Snow Water Equivalent, Surface Pressure, Heat Flux, Longwave Radiation, Shortwave Radiation, Surface Temperature, Humidity, Evapotranspiration, Surface Winds, Rain, Precipitation Rate, Snow, Soil Moisture/Water Content, Soil Temperature, Land Surface Temperature, Runoff
Global Snow Depth Retrieval From Passive Microwave Brightness Temperature With Machine Learning Approach Xu, Xiaocong, Liu, Xiaoping, Li, Xia, Shi, Qian, Chen, Yimin, Ai, Bin Land Use/Land Cover Classification, Snow Water Equivalent, Snow Water Equivalent, Surface Pressure, Heat Flux, Longwave Radiation, Shortwave Radiation, Surface Temperature, Humidity, Evapotranspiration, Surface Winds, Rain, Precipitation Rate, Snow, Soil Moisture/Water Content, Soil Temperature, Land Surface Temperature, Runoff, Brightness Temperature
Improving cold-region streamflow estimation by winter precipitation Kang, D, Lee, K, Kim, E J Snow Water Equivalent, Snow Water Equivalent
Minimum snow/ice extent over the northern circumpolar landmass in 200019: How much snow survives the summer melt? Trishchenko, Alexander P., Ungureanu, Calin Land Use/Land Cover Classification, Snow Water Equivalent, Snow Water Equivalent
Validation of remotely sensed estimates of snow water equivalent using multiple reference datasets from the middle and high latitudes of China Yang, J.W., Jiang, L.M., Lemmetyinen, J., Luojus, K., Takala, M., Wu, S.L., Pan, J.M. Snow Water Equivalent, Snow Water Equivalent
Evaluation and intercomparison of multiple snow water equivalent products over the Tibetan Plateau Bian, Qingyun, Xu, Zhongfeng, Zhao, Long, Zhang, Yong-Fei, Zheng, Hui, Shi, Chunxiang, Zhang, Shuai, Xie, Conghui, Yang, Zong-Liang Snow Water Equivalent, Snow Water Equivalent
Estimating alpine snow depth by combining multifrequency passive radiance observations with ensemble snowpack modeling Kim, Rhae Sung, Durand, Michael, Li, Dongyue, Baldo, Elisabeth, Margulis, Steven A., Dumont, Marie, Morin, Samuel Snow Water Equivalent, Snow Water Equivalent
Comparison of satellite passive microwave with modeled snow water equivalent estimates in the Red River of the North Basin Schroeder, Ronny, Jacobs, Jennifer M., Cho, Eunsang, Olheiser, Carrie M., DeWeese, Michael M., Connelly, Brian A., Cosh, Michael H., Jia, Xinhua, Vuyovich, Carrie M., Tuttle, Samuel E. Snow Water Equivalent, Snow Water Equivalent, Brightness Temperature, Microwave Imagery
The effect of Indian Summer Monsoon rainfall on surface water D values in the central Himalaya Meese, Bernd, Bookhagen, Bodo, Olen, Stephanie M., Barthold, Frauke, Sachse, Dirk Snow Water Equivalent, Snow Water Equivalent
Evaluation of remotely sensed snow water equivalent and snow cover extent over the contiguous United States Dawson, Nicholas, Broxton, Patrick, Zeng, Xubin Snow Water Equivalent, Snow Water Equivalent, Snow Cover, Snow Cover
Assimilation of passive microwave AMSR-2 satellite observations in a snowpack evolution model over northeastern Canada Larue, Fanny, Royer, Alain, De Seve, Danielle, Roy, Alexandre, Cosme, Emmanuel Snow Water Equivalent, Snow Water Equivalent, Condensation, Evaporation, Sublimation, Cloud Liquid Water/Ice, Cloud Precipitable Water, Liquid Water Equivalent, Precipitation Rate, Rain, Heat Flux
Intercomparison of snow water equivalent observations in the Northern Great Plains Tuttle, Samuel E., Jacobs, Jennifer M., Vuyovich, Carrie M., Olheiser, Carrie, Cho, Eunsang Snow Water Equivalent, Snow Water Equivalent
Snow water equivalent in the Alps as seen by gridded data sets, CMIP5 and CORDEX climate models Terzago, Silvia, von Hardenberg, Jost, Palazzi, Elisa, Provenzale, Antonello Snow Water Equivalent, Snow Water Equivalent
Validation of GlobSnow-2 snow water equivalent over Eastern Canada Larue, Fanny, Royer, Alain, De Seve, Danielle, Langlois, Alexandre, Roy, Alexandre, Brucker, Ludovic Snow Water Equivalent, Snow Water Equivalent
Investigating spatiotemporal snow cover variability via cloud-free MODIS snow cover product in Central Alborz Region Dariane, Alireza B., Khoramian, Amin, Santi, Emanuele Terrain Elevation, Digital Elevation/Terrain Model (DEM), Topographical Relief Maps, Snow Water Equivalent, Snow Water Equivalent
Global snow cover estimation with microwave brightness temperature measurements and one-class in situ observations Xu, Xiaocong, Liu, Xiaoping, Li, Xia, Xin, Qinchuan, Chen, Yimin, Shi, Qian, Ai, Bin Snow Water Equivalent, Snow Water Equivalent, Brightness Temperature, Snow Cover
Assessing global satellite-based snow water equivalent datasets in ESA SnowPEx project Luojus, Kari, Pulliainen, Jouni, Cohen, Juval, Ikonen, Jaakko, Takala, Matias, Lemmetyinen, Juha, Smolander, Tuomo, Derksen, Chris, Nagler, Thomas, Bojkov, Bojan Snow Water Equivalent, Snow Water Equivalent
Assimilation of AMSR-E snow water equivalent data in a spatially-lumped snow model Dziubanski, David J., Franz, Kristie J. Snow Water Equivalent, Snow Water Equivalent
A hydrologic routing model suitable for climate-scale simulations of Beighley, R.E., Eggert, K., Wilson, C.J., Rowland, J.C., Lee, H. Snow Water Equivalent, Snow Water Equivalent
Open access data in polar and cryospheric remote sensing Pope, Allen, Rees, W., Fox, Adrian, Fleming, Andrew Brightness Temperature, Ice Velocity, Sea Ice Concentration, Snow Depth, Snow Water Equivalent, Snow Water Equivalent, Ice Extent, Sea Ice Age, Snow Melt, Snow Cover, Soil Moisture/Water Content, Ice Velocity
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