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Description

This data set contains daily 'cloud-free' snow cover produced from the VIIRS/NPP Snow Cover Daily L3 Global 375m SIN Grid, Version 2 snow cover product. A cloud-gap-filled algorithm is utilized to replace ‘cloud-covered’ pixels with ‘cloud-free pixels’ for the purpose of estimating the snow cover that may exist under current cloud cover. The data are provided daily and mapped to a 375 m sinusoidal grid.

Version Description

Data update as part of VIIRS/JPSS-1 Collection 2

Product Summary

Platforms
Suomi-NPP
Instruments
VIIRS
Spatial Extent

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

Spatial Resolution
375 Meters x 375 Meters
Location
GLOBAL LAND
Coordinate System
CARTESIAN
Granule Spatial Representation
GEODETIC
Temporal Extent
2012-01-19 to Present
Temporal Resolution
1 Day
Concept ID
C3173405448-NSIDC_CPRD
Data State
ACTIVE
Number of Files/Granules
1759105
Processing Level
3
Published
Science Keywords
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

Riggs, G., & Hall, D. (2022). VIIRS/NPP CGF Snow Cover Daily L3 Global 375m SIN Grid, Version 2 [Dataset]. NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center. https://doi.org/10.5067/PN50Y51IVNLE Date Accessed: 2026-09-12

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Evaluating the Performance of Sentinel-1 SAR Derived Snow Depth Bulovic, N., Johnson, F., Lievens, H., Shaw, T. E., McPhee, J., Gascoin, S., Demuzere, M., McIntyre, N. Land Use/Land Cover Classification, Snow Cover
Landsat, MODIS, and VIIRS snow cover mapping algorithm performance as validated by airborne lidar datasets Stillinger, Timbo, Rittger, Karl, Raleigh, Mark S., Michell, Alex, Davis, Robert E., Bair, Edward H. Snow Cover
Global Snow Seasonality Regimes from Satellite Records of Snow Cover Johnston, Jeremy, Jacobs, Jennifer M., Cho, Eunsang Snow Cover, Albedo
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