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Description

This data set provides daily 10 km resolution maps of the Alaskan and Arctic Boreal land surface state as either frozen, melting, or thawed. These data are generated from passive microwave radiometer observations made from 2003 through 2014 by the Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer (AMSR-E) and the Special Sensor Microwave Imager (SSM/I). Data products overlap with science data collections carried out during the Carbon in Arctic Reservoirs Vulnerability Experiment (CARVE).

Product Summary

Platforms
ADEOS-II ,
DMSP
Instruments
AMSR-E ,
SSM/I
Spatial Extent

N: 74.399 S: 46.9946 E: -106.947 W: -179.999

Coordinate System
CARTESIAN
Granule Spatial Representation
CARTESIAN
Temporal Extent
2003-01-01 to 2014-12-31
Data Partner
THE OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY (ORNL) DISTRIBUTED ACTIVE ARCHIVE CENTER (DAAC) (ORNL_DAAC)
Concept ID
C2236282870-ORNL_CLOUD
Data State
COMPLETE
Number of Files/Granules
16
Processing Level
3
Published
Updated
Science Keywords
Freeze/Thaw ,
Snow Melt ,
Freeze/Thaw ,
Snow Melt

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.

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Steiner, N., McDonald, K. C., & Miller, C. E. (2018). CARVE: Daily Thaw State of Boreal and Arctic Alaska from AMSR-E and SSM/I, 2003-2014 (Version 1.1). ORNL Distributed Active Archive Center. https://doi.org/10.3334/ORNLDAAC/1383 Date Accessed: 2026-04-16

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