North America Snow Cover Maps
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- Visualizations by:
- Helen-Nicole Kostis
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This entry contains Snow Cover Maps for Norh America with statelines, using the MODIS Cloud-gap-filled (CGF) Product at ~25-km resolution. The MODIS CGF product seeks to provide clear snow observations by filling cloudy areas on a given day with clear observations from previous days.The usual source for this product is the MOD10C1 MODIS/Terra Snow Cover Daily L3 Global 0.05Deg CMG, Version 5 and a variant has been coded that can use MOD10A1 MODIS/Aqua Snow Cover Daily L3 Global 500m Grid, Version 5 as source.
Maps are provided for various dates for 2006, 2010, 2011 and 2012, to compare snow cover between years.
Credits
Please give credit for this item to:
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio
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Animator
- Helen-Nicole Kostis (USRA) [Lead]
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Writer
- Ellen T. Gray (NASA/HQ)
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Scientists
- Dorothy Hall (NASA/GSFC)
- Jeffrey A. Miller (Wyle Information Systems)
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Producers
- Malissa Reyes (USRA)
- Rani Gran (NASA/GSFC)
Missions
This visualization is related to the following missions:Datasets used in this visualization
Terra Bathymetry (Collected with the MODIS sensor)
Terra and Aqua BMNG (A.K.A. Blue Marble: Next Generation) (Collected with the MODIS sensor)
Credit: The Blue Marble data is courtesy of Reto Stockli (NASA/GSFC).
Dataset can be found at: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/BlueMarble/
See more visualizations using this data setTerra MODIS Cloud-gap-filled (CGF) Product (A.K.A. Cloud-gap-filled MODIS daily snow-cover product) (Collected with the MODIS sensor)
The MODIS CGF product seeks to provide clear snow observations by filling cloudy areas on a given day with clear observations from previous days. The usual source data for this product is the MOD10C1 MODIS/Terra Snow Cover Daily L3 Global 0.05Deg CMG, Version 5 and a variant has been coded that can use MOD10A1 MODIS/Aqua Snow Cover Daily L3 Global 500m Grid, Version 5 as source.
Dataset can be found at: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pil/S0034425709003162
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