MODIS Snow Cover over North America

  • Released Thursday, July 4, 2002
  • Updated Monday, January 19, 2015 at 12:32PM
  • ID: 2487

The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) provides data in 36 spectral bands, some of which are used in an algorithm to map global snow cover. In this animation, a time series of global snow cover from MODIS-derived 8-day composite snow maps with a spatial resolution of about 5 km shows the dynamic behavior of the advance and retreat of continental snow cover over North America during the winter of 2001-02.
Video slate image reads "MODIS Snow Cover over North America during the Winter of 2001-2002".

Video slate image reads "MODIS Snow Cover over North America during the Winter of 2001-2002".



Credits

Please give credit for this item to:
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
Scientific Visualization Studio. Snow Data Preparation was done by The MODIS Snow & Ice Team, Janet Y. L. Chien. Blue Marble data courtesy of Reto Stockli.
Technical Assistance from the following SVS team members: Randall Jones, Kevin Mahoney, Marte Newcombe, Tom Bridgman, Lori Perkins, Gregory Shirah, Eric Sokolowsky, James Williams.


Missions

This visualization is related to the following missions:

Datasets used in this visualization

Terra and Aqua Blue Marble Cloud Cover (Collected with the MODIS sensor)

Credit: The Blue Marble data is courtesy of Reto Stockli (NASA/GSFC).

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Terra and Aqua Blue Marble Land Cover (Collected with the MODIS sensor)

Credit: The Blue Marble data is courtesy of Reto Stockli (NASA/GSFC).

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Terra Snow Cover 8-day composite L3 Global 0.05Deg CMG (MOD10C2) (Collected with the MODIS sensor)

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