Daily Snow over North America 2002-2003 with Permafrost Map
This animation shows daily snow cover over North America from September 1, 2002 through June 30, 2003. A permafrost map shown in frost-green indicates where the ground is frozen throughout the year. The sea ice climatology indicates the average extent of the sea ice during each month.
This animation shows the variability of daily snow cover over North America from September 1, 2002 to June 30, 2003.
This still image shows daily snow cover over North America on February 3, 2003.
Credits
Please give credit for this item to:
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
Scientific Visualization Studio, and Mary Jo Brodzik (NSIDC)
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Visualizer
- Cindy Starr (Global Science and Technology, Inc.)
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Scientist
- Dorothy Hall (NASA/GSFC)
Release date
This page was originally published on Tuesday, June 13, 2006.
This page was last updated on Wednesday, May 3, 2023 at 1:55 PM EDT.
Missions
This visualization is related to the following missions:Datasets used in this visualization
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Circum-Arctic Map of Permafrost and Ground-Ice Conditions
ID: 276This dataset can be found at: http://nsidc.org/data/docs/fgdc/ggd318_map_circumarctic/index.html
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Monthly Sea Ice Concentration Climatology [DMSP: SSM/I]
ID: 291 -
Snow Cover Daily L3 Global 0.05Deg CMG (MOD10C1) [Terra: MODIS]
ID: 504
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