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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
High Mountain Asia CMIP6 Monthly and Yearly Water Balance Projections, 2016-2099 for Parts of Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Pakistan V001 1 MODELS NOT APPLICABLE 2016-01-01 to 2099-12-31, 1980-01-01 to 2018-12-31

N: 39.83334 S: 31.08334 E: 81.75 W: 65.58334

netCDF-4
ALOS_PALSAR_LEVEL2.2 1 ALOS PALSAR 2006-01-23 to 2011-05-23

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

LBA Regional Wetlands Data Set, 1-Degree (Matthews and Fung) 1 NOT APPLICABLE NOT APPLICABLE 1971-01-01 to 1982-01-01

N: 10 S: -25 E: -30 W: -85

multiple
LBA-ECO CD-06 Isotopic Composition of Carbon Fractions, Amazon Basin River Water 1 FIELD INVESTIGATION, LABORATORY IRGA, CHN ANALYZERS, MASS SPECTROMETERS, BALANCE 1991-08-12 to 2003-01-26

N: -1.817 S: -16.472 E: -58.798 W: -74.572

CSV
SnowEx20 Raw Near Surface Snow Temperature Profile Time Series V001 1 GROUND-BASED OBSERVATIONS CAMERAS, THERMOMETERS, TIR 2020-02-05 to 2020-02-12

N: 39.036349 S: 39.006 E: -108.17523 W: -108.215629

PNG, JPEG, BMP, Excel, ASCII
SAFARI 2000 Freshwater Wetlands, 1-Deg (Stillwell-Soller et al.) 1 NOT APPLICABLE NOT APPLICABLE 1995-01-01 to 1995-09-30

N: 5 S: -35 E: 60 W: 5

multiple
Sentinel-1A Single Polarization High Resolution Ground Range Detected Product 1 Sentinel-1A C-SAR 2014-04-03 to Present

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

SnowEx20 Grand Mesa Autumn 2019 Snow Pits V001 1 GROUND-BASED OBSERVATIONS A2 Photonic_WISe, MICROSCOPES, SNOW DENSITY CUTTER, THERMOMETERS 2019-11-04 to 2019-11-06

N: 39.046174 S: 39.008296 E: -108.150626 W: -108.201372

JPEG, ASCII, Excel
Timeseries of Arctic-Boreal Lake Area Derived from CubeSat Imagery, 2017 1 SATELLITES CAMERA 2017-05-01 to 2017-10-01

N: 70.3105 S: 52.8149 E: -89.8193 W: -149.699

multiple
Sentinel-1A Level 0 Product Metadata 1 Sentinel-1A C-SAR 2014-04-03 to Present

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

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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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