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Terrestrial Hydrosphere Data Access and Tools

NASA data examine many characteristics of the liquid and frozen water and the dynamic processes they are part of across Earth’s landscape. Our datasets and tools help researchers translate these interconnected data points into actionable knowledge.

Terrestrial Hydrosphere Datasets

Dataset Version Sort ascending Platforms Instruments Temporal Extent Spatial Extent Spatial Resolution Data Format
BOREAS/AES Campbell Scientific 15-minute Surface Meteorological Data: 1994 1 METEOROLOGICAL STATIONS RAIN GAUGES, PRESSURE SENSORS, THERMISTORS, HUMIDITY SENSORS, ULTRASONIC DEPTH GAUGE, ANEMOMETERS 1994-01-01 to 1994-12-31

N: 58.18 S: 50.95 E: -94.7 W: -108.52

ASCII
ARCSIX P-3B In-Situ Cloud Data 1 P-3B 2DS, Hawkeye 2DS, FCDP, HVPS, CFDC 2024-05-17 to 2024-08-18

N: 86.06 S: 37.68 E: -8.32 W: -105.18

ICARTT, Text File
SnowEx17 Senator Beck SnowMicroPen (SMP) Raw Penetration Force Profiles V001 1 GROUND-BASED OBSERVATIONS SMP 2017-02-06 to 2017-02-20

N: 37.940572 S: 37.856078 E: -107.6725 W: -107.752128

PNG, ASCII
NRT AMSR2 Unified L3 Global Daily 25 km EASE-Grid Snow Water Equivalent R01 1 GCOM-W1 AMSR2 null HDF-EOS5
BOREAS/SRC AMS Suite A Surface Meteorological and Radiation Data: 1996 1 METEOROLOGICAL STATIONS INFRARED THERMOMETERS, HUMIDITY SENSORS, TEMPERATURE SENSORS, WIND MONITOR, ULTRASONIC DEPTH GAUGE, RAIN GAUGES, LICOR QUANTUM SENSOR, PYRANOMETERS, NET RADIOMETERS, BAROMETERS, TEMPERATURE PROBES 1996-01-01 to 1996-12-31

N: 59.34 S: 50.57 E: -94.08 W: -110.05

ASCII
Maps of Vegetation Types and Physiographic Features, Toolik Lake Area, Alaska 1 COMPUTERS Computer 1990-01-01 to 2014-08-31

N: 68.6561 S: 68.6169 E: -149.546 W: -149.67

Shapefile
Delta-X: Delft3D Broad-Scale Sediment Model, Atchafalaya Basin, MRD, Louisiana, USA 1 COMPUTERS Computer 2021-03-20 to 2021-08-28

N: 29.8218 S: 29.1725 E: -90.9994 W: -91.8697

multiple
LBA-ECO ND-02 Stream Water Chemistry, Paragominas, Para, Brazil: 1999-2005 1 FIELD INVESTIGATION, LABORATORY TEMPERATURE SENSORS, TURBIDITY METERS, STREAM GAUGES, OXYGEN ANALYZERS, PH METERS, CARBON ANALYZERS, ION CHROMATOGRAPHS 1999-08-12 to 2005-10-01

N: -2.2015 S: -3.1904 E: -47.2723 W: -47.667

CSV
ALOS PALSAR Level 1.1 Product 1 ALOS PALSAR 2006-01-23 to 2011-05-23

N: 90 S: -90 E: 180 W: -180

ISLSCP II River Routing Data (STN-30p) 1 NOT APPLICABLE NOT APPLICABLE 1986-01-01 to 1995-12-31

N: 90 S: -90 E: 180 W: -180

Shapefile
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Terrestrial Hydrosphere Data Tools

Tool Sort descending Description Services
VEDA NASA's Visualization, Exploration, and Data Analysis (VEDA) project is an open-source science cyberinfrastructure for data processing, visualization, exploration, and geographic information systems (GIS) capabilities. Access, Analysis, Processing, Visualization, Geoprocessing
WISP The Water Information from Space (WISP) is an interactive dashboard for displaying satellite hydrology data. Monitoring Natural Events, 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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