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Snow/Ice Data Access and Tools
From discovery to visualization, data tools such as Application for Extracting and Exploring Analysis Ready Samples (AppEEARS), Snow Today, and Worldview guide users in making the most of snow and ice data.
Snow/Ice Datasets
| Dataset | Version Sort ascending | Platforms | Instruments | Temporal Extent | Spatial Extent | Spatial Resolution | Data Format |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MEaSUREs Northern Hemisphere Terrestrial Snow Cover Extent Weekly 100km EASE-Grid 2.0 V001 | 1 | DMSP 5D-2/F11, DMSP 5D-2/F13, DMSP 5D-2/F8, DMSP 5D-3/F17, Nimbus-7 | SSM/I, SSMIS, SMMR | 1966-10-04 to 2012-12-31 |
N: 90 S: 0 E: 180 W: -180 |
100 Kilometers x 100 Kilometers | netCDF-4 |
| IceBridge WISE L2 Ice Thickness and Surface Elevation V001 | 1 | DHC-3 | WISE | 2012-03-16 to 2012-03-26 |
N: 61.7 S: 58.7 E: -137.1 W: -148.6 |
CSV | |
| ABoVE: CO2 and CH4 Fluxes and Meteorology at Flux Tower Sites, Alaska, 2015-2017 | 1 | FIELD SURVEYS, GROUND STATIONS, METEOROLOGICAL STATIONS | PROBES, NET RADIOMETERS, LICOR QUANTUM SENSOR, THERMOCOUPLES, EDDY CORRELATION DEVICES, PYRANOMETERS | 2015-01-01 to 2017-03-09 |
N: 71.282 S: 68.4864 E: -155.75 W: -157.41 |
CSV | |
| SENTINEL-1A_SINGLE_POL_METADATA_GRD_FULL_RES | 1 | SENTINEL-1A | C-SAR | 2014-04-03 to Present |
N: 90 S: -90 E: 180 W: -180 |
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| SnowEx20 Grand Mesa Snow Depth from Snow Pole Time-Lapse Imagery V001 | 1 | GROUND-BASED OBSERVATIONS | CAMERAS | 2019-09-29 to 2020-06-10 |
N: 39.067 S: 39 E: -107.997 W: -108.228 |
CSV | |
| Select Northern Hemisphere Glacier Velocity Maps Using Customized autoRIFT and PlanetScope Imagery V001 | 1 | LANDSAT-8, LANDSAT-9, PlanetScope, Sentinel-2A, Sentinel-2B | OLI, OLI-2, PS2, PS2.SD, PSB.SD, Sentinel-2 MSI | 2019-03-05 to 2022-12-26, 2019-03-18 to 2022-12-31, 2020-01-16 to 2021-10-16, 2020-03-10 to 2021-09-28, 2021-01-19 to 2022-11-27 |
N: 78.7800952 S: 78.6133048 E: 12.7046985 W: 11.5497732 N: 60.4731365 S: 60.1011977 E: -137.8206057 W: -138.6933945 N: 38.7041022 S: 38.6037845 E: 72.2802216 W: 72.1118897 N: 60.2800575 S: 59.9016126 E: -139.4144551 W: -140.175999 N: 35.4419895 S: 35.2267909 E: 77.6655226 W: 77.3183406 |
100 Meters x 100 Meters | GeoTIFF, Shapefile, CSV |
| Alaska's Changing YK Delta: Knowledge Exchange between Elders and Geoscientists, 2018 | 1 | FIELD SURVEYS | VISUAL OBSERVATIONS | 2018-11-14 to 2018-11-16 |
N: 63.4333 S: 59.5816 E: -159.478 W: -166.553 |
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| AMSR-E/AMSR2 Unified L3 Global 5-Day 25 km EASE-Grid Snow Water Equivalent V001 | 1 | Aqua, GCOM-W1 | AMSR-E, AMSR2 | 2002-06-05 to 2011-10-02, 2012-07-02 to 2025-08-28 |
N: 90 S: -90 E: 180 W: -180 |
25 Kilometers x 25 Kilometers | HDF-EOS5 |
| Forest Aboveground Biomass for the Southwestern U.S. from MISR, 2000-2021 | 1 | Terra | MISR | 2000-05-15 to 2021-06-30 |
N: 46.2812 S: 28.599 E: -99.0185 W: -126.18 |
GeoTIFF | |
| IceBridge PARIS L2 Ice Thickness V001 | 1 | Aircraft, P-3B | RADAR ECHO SOUNDERS, PARIS | 2009-04-01 to 2009-05-02 |
N: 84 S: 60 E: -11 W: -73 |
ASCII |
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Snow/Ice Data Tools
| Tool Sort descending | Description | Services | |
|---|---|---|---|
| AppEEARS | The The Application for Extracting and Exploring Analysis Ready Samples (AppEEARS) offers users a simple and efficient way to perform data access and transformation processes. | Search and Discovery, Subsetting, Customization, Downloading, Visualization | |
| Worldview | Worldview offers the capability to interactively browse over 1,200 global, full-resolution satellite imagery layers and download the underlying data. | Analysis, Search and Discovery, Visualization, Access, Comparison, Monitoring Natural Events |
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