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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 1 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.

As of April 2025, this data set is retired and no longer available for download. Data from the "Golden Month," a 40-day window from 29 August, 2018 to 7 October, 2018 are available by special request from NSIDC User Services.

We recommend using <a href="https://nsidc.org/data/vnp10a1f/versions/2">VIIRS/NPP CGF Snow Cover Daily L3 Global 375m SIN Grid, Version 2</a> as an alternative.

Version Description

Initial data release

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
Coordinate System
CARTESIAN
Granule Spatial Representation
GEODETIC
Temporal Extent
2012-01-19 to 2024-06-17
Temporal Resolution
1 Day
Concept ID
C2844843293-NSIDC_CPRD
Data State
DEPRECATED
Number of Files/Granules
0
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., & Rom??n, M. (2019). VIIRS/NPP CGF Snow Cover Daily L3 Global 375m SIN Grid, Version 1 [Dataset]. NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center. https://doi.org/10.5067/VIIRS/VNP10A1F.001 Date Accessed: 2026-07-27

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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
Global Snow Seasonality Regimes from Satellite Records of Snow Cover Johnston, Jeremy, Jacobs, Jennifer M., Cho, Eunsang Snow Cover, Albedo
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
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