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Description

This data set contains daily snow cover derived from radiance data acquired by the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) on board the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (NPP) satellite. The data is a gridded composite, generated from 6 minute swaths, and projected to a 375 m Sinusoidal grid. Snow cover is identified using the Normalized Difference Snow Index (NDSI) and a series of screens designed to alleviate errors and flag uncertain snow cover detections.

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/vnp10a1/versions/2">VIIRS/NPP Snow Cover Daily L3 Global 375m SIN Grid, Version 2</a> as an alternative.

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
Concept ID
C2844842625-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 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/VNP10A1.001 Date Accessed: 2026-07-28

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A dataset for monitoring agricultural drought in Europe Fioravanti, Guido, Toreti, Andrea, Cammalleri, Carmelo, Munoz, Carolina Arias, Bavera, Davide, De Jager, Alfred, Hrast Essenfelder, Arthur, Di Ciollo, Chiara, Masante, Dario, Magni, Diego, Navarro, Juan Acosta, Mazzesch, Marco, Maetens, Willem Leaf Characteristics, Photosynthetically Active Radiation, Leaf Area Index (LAI), Fraction Of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation (fapar), Snow Cover
Continuity between NASA MODIS Collection 6.1 and VIIRS Collection 2 land Roman, Miguel O., Justice, Chris, Paynter, Ian, Boucher, Peter B., Devadiga, Sadashiva, Endsley, Arthur, Erb, Angela, Friedl, Mark, Gao, Huilin, Giglio, Louis, Gray, Josh M., Hall, Dorothy, Hulley, Glynn, Kimball, John, Knyazikhin, Yuri, Lyapustin, Alexei, Myneni, Ranga B., Noojipady, Praveen, Pu, Jiabin, Riggs, George, Sarkar, Sudipta, Schaaf, Crystal, Shah, Deep, Tran, Khuong H., Vermote, Eric, Wang, Dongdong, Wang, Zhuosen, Wu, Aisheng, Ye, Yongchang, Shen, Yu, Zhang, Shuai, Zhang, Shuai, Zhang, Xiaoyang, Zhao, Maosheng, Davidson, Carol, Wolfe, Robert Plant Phenology, Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI), Leaf Characteristics, Photosynthetically Active Radiation, Leaf Area Index (LAI), Fraction Of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation (fapar), Snow Cover
Effect of Cloud Mask on the Consistency of Snow Cover Products from Liu, Anwei, Che, Tao, Huang, Xiaodong, Dai, Liyun, Wang, Jing, Deng, Jie Albedo, Snow Cover
Continuity of MODIS and VIIRS snow cover extent data products for development of an Earth science data record Riggs, George, Hall, Dorothy Albedo, Snow Cover, Albedo
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