Earth ID: 2726

Comparison of Snow Cover over the USA during the Winters of 2001/2002 and 2002/2003

Visualizations by Cindy Starr Released on April 3, 2003

This animation compares snow cover between December and February of 2001-02 with the same time period in 2002-03 using 8-day composite snow maps. The snow cover from the winter of 2002-03 is shown in white while the areas that had snow in 2001-02 but not in 2002-03 are shown in blue.

This image displays the snow cover from February 21, 2003 in white. Areas with snow cover on February 21, 2002 but not on February 21, 2003 are shown in blue.

Visualization Credits

Cindy Starr (Global Science and Technology, Inc.): Lead Visualizer
Dorothy Hall (NASA/GSFC): Scientist

Please give credit for this item to:
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio, Kimberly Casey (SSAI), Nick Digirolamo (SSAI); The Blue Marble Next Generation data is courtesy of Reto Stockli (NASA/GSFC) and NASA's Earth Observatory.

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Mission:
Terra

Data Used:

Terra/MODIS/Snow Cover 8-day composite L3 Global 0.05Deg CMG (MOD10C2)

2001/12/11 - 2002/02/21 and 2002/12/11 - 2003/02/21

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Terra and Aqua/MODIS/Blue Marble: Next Generation also referred to as: BMNG

1/1/2004 - 12/31/2004

http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/BlueMarble/

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

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Keywords:
DLESE >> Cryology
SVS >> Snow Cover
NASA Science >> Earth