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Freeze/Thaw Data Access and Tools
Data from NASA range from daily composites of global landscape freeze/thaw conditions to daily thaw state maps of Boreal and Arctic Alaska. Our datasets and tools help users find and integrate the data they need to measure and understand freezing and thawing processes within Earth’s cryosphere.
Freeze/Thaw Datasets
| Dataset Sort descending | Version | Platforms | Instruments | Temporal Extent | Spatial Extent | Spatial Resolution | Data Format |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ABoVE: Active Layer Thickness from Remote Sensing Permafrost Model, Alaska, 2001-2015 | 1 | SATELLITES, SMAP | MODIS, SMAP L-BAND RADAR | 2001-01-01 to 2015-12-31 |
N: 70.214 S: 55.5667 E: -132.576 W: -179.18 |
netCDF-4 classic | |
| Aquarius L3 Weekly Polar-Gridded Landscape Freeze/Thaw Data V005 | 5 | SAC-D | AQUARIUS_RADIOMETER | 2011-08-25 to 2015-06-04 |
N: 87.4 S: 50 E: 180 W: -180 |
36 Kilometers x 36 Kilometers | HDF |
| Arctic Vegetation Plots, Prudhoe Bay ArcSEES Road Study, Lake Colleen, Alaska, 2014 | 1 | FIELD SURVEYS, LABORATORY | CORING DEVICES, PROBES, GPS, THERMOMETERS, BALANCE | 2014-08-06 to 2014-08-13 |
N: 70.2248 S: 70.2214 E: -148.467 W: -148.474 |
CSV | |
| BOREAS Follow-On DSP-04 1994 ERS-1 Level-4 Landscape Freeze/Thaw Maps, Ver. 1.0 | 1 | ERS-1 | AMI | 1994-02-14 to 1994-12-14 |
N: 60 S: 48 E: -90 W: -111 |
Binary | |
| BOREAS RSS-17 1994 ERS-1 Level-3 Freeze/Thaw Backscatter Change Images | 1 | ERS-1 | SAR | 1994-01-03 to 1994-03-19 |
N: 59.98 S: 50.09 E: -93.5 W: -111 |
Binary | |
| CARVE: Daily Thaw State of Boreal and Arctic Alaska from AMSR-E and SSM/I, 2003-2014 | 1.1 | ADEOS-II, DMSP | AMSR-E, SSM/I | 2003-01-01 to 2014-12-31 |
N: 74.399 S: 46.9946 E: -106.947 W: -179.999 |
netCDF-4 | |
| Global-Gridded Daily Methane Emissions Climatology from Lake Systems, 2003-2015 | 1 | MERRA-2, LANDSAT | Computer | 2012-01-01 to 2012-12-31 |
N: 90 S: -90 E: 180 W: -180 |
netCDF-4 classic | |
| High Mountain Asia ASCAT Freeze/Thaw/Melt Status V001 | 1 | METOP, METOP-A, METOP-B | ASCAT | 2009-01-01 to 2017-10-12 |
N: 44.683 S: 19.125 E: 105.577 W: 63.427 |
4.45 Kilometers x 4.45 Kilometers | PNG, HDF5, GeoTIFF |
| MEaSUREs Global Record of Daily Landscape Freeze/Thaw Status V005 | 5 | DMSP 5D-2/F11, DMSP 5D-2/F13, DMSP 5D-2/F8, DMSP 5D-3/F17, FY-3B, GCOM-W1, Nimbus-7 | SSM/I, SSMIS, MWRI, AMSR2, SMMR | 1979-01-01 to 2023-12-31 |
N: 86.7167 S: -86.7167 E: 179.9999 W: -179.9999 |
25 Kilometers x 25 Kilometers | HDF5, GIF, GeoTIFF |
| SMAP Enhanced L3 Radiometer Global and Northern Hemisphere Daily 9 km EASE-Grid Freeze/Thaw State V004 | 004 | SMAP | SMAP L-BAND RADIOMETER | 2015-03-31 to Present |
N: 85.044 S: -85.044 E: 180 W: -180 N: 85.044 S: 45 E: 180 W: -180 |
9 Kilometers x 9 Kilometers | HDF5 |
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Freeze/Thaw Data Tools
| Tool Sort descending | Description | Services | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Earthdata Search | Earthdata Search enables data discovery, search, comparison, visualization, and access across NASA’s Earth science data holdings. | Search and Discovery, Access, Cataloging, Cloud Computing, Downloading | |
| 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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