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Description

This data set, part of the NASA Making Earth System Data Records for Use in Research Environments (MEaSUREs) program, offers users weekly 100 km Northern Hemisphere snow cover extent represented by three different variables. Two of the variables are derived from individual source products: the NOAA/NCDC Northern Hemisphere Snow Cover Extent Climate Data Record and Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) passive microwave brightness temperatures, respectively. The third variable merges the other two into a single representation of snow cover.

Version Description

Initial release

Product Summary

Platforms
DMSP 5D-2/F11 ,
DMSP 5D-2/F13 ,
DMSP 5D-2/F8 ,
DMSP 5D-3/F17 ,
Nimbus-7
Instruments
SSM/I ,
SSMIS ,
SMMR
Projects
MEaSUREs
Spatial Extent

N: 90 S: 0 E: 180 W: -180

Spatial Resolution
100 Kilometers x 100 Kilometers
Spatial Reference System(s)
WGS 84 / NSIDC EASE-Grid 2.0 North (EPSG:6931)
Location
NORTHERN HEMISPHERE
Coordinate System
CARTESIAN
Granule Spatial Representation
CARTESIAN
Temporal Extent
1966-10-04 to 2012-12-31
Temporal Resolution
7 Day
Concept ID
C3291000593-NSIDC_CPRD
Data State
COMPLETE
Number of Files/Granules
2376
Processing Level
3
Published
Updated
Science Keywords
Snow Cover ,
Snow Cover

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

Robinson, D., & Mote, T. (2014). MEaSUREs Northern Hemisphere Terrestrial Snow Cover Extent Weekly 100km EASE-Grid 2.0, Version 1 [Dataset]. NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center. https://doi.org/10.5067/MEASURES/CRYOSPHERE/NSIDC-0531.001 Date Accessed: 2026-09-14

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Retrospective Mapping of Global Snow and Ice Cover Beyond the Satellite Kumah, Kingsley K., Zandi, Omid, Behrangi, Ali Snow Cover, Snow Cover
Historical Simulations With HadGEM3-GC3.1 for CMIP6 Andrews, Martin B., Ridley, Jeff K., Wood, Richard A., Andrews, Timothy, Blockley, Edward W., Booth, Ben, Burke, Eleanor, Dittus, Andrea J., Florek, Piotr, Gray, Lesley J., Haddad, Stephen, Hardiman, Steven C., Hermanson, Leon, Hodson, Dan, Hogan, Emma, Jones, Gareth S., Knight, Jeff R., Kuhlbrodt, Till, Misios, Stergios, Mizielinski, Matthew S., Ringer, Mark A., Robson, Jon, Sutton, Rowan T. Snow Cover, Snow Cover
Global multisensor automated satellite-based snow and ice mapping system (GMASI) for cryosphere monitoring Romanov, Peter Snow Cover, Snow Cover
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