Earth ID: 2981

Global Daily Snow and Sea Ice Surface Temperature

Visualizations by Cindy Starr Released on September 25, 2004

This animation shows the global advance and retreat of daily snow cover along with daily sea ice surface temperature over the Northern Hemisphere from September 2002 through May 2003. The snow cover was measured by the MODIS instrument on the Terra satellite, while the sea ice surface temperature was measured by the MODIS instrument on the Aqua satellite. Since these instruments cannot take measurements through clouds, in cloud-covered regions or areas with suspect data quality, the prior day's value is retained until a valid data reading is obtained. This visualization designates an area as covered by snow when the instrument takes a valid measurement showing greater than ~50% snow coverage in that area. This area is assumed to be snow covered until the instrument takes a valid measurement showing less than 40% snow coverage in that same area. A color bar indicates the sea ice surface temperature values. The satellite instruments are unable to collect data through darkness. The region in polar darkness is shown as a gray cap over the pole that grows and shrinks seasonally. A date slider indicates the progression of time. SeaWiFS Land Reflectance shows the seasonal changes in land cover.

This color bar shows the colors used to represent the sea ice surface temperature. The coldest water is shown in light blue. The warmest sea ice is shown in shades of pink. As the sea ice surface temperatures cool below -15 degrees Celsius, the color is shown in shades of purple. The sea ice surface below -28 degrees Celsius is shown in shades of blue-grey.

Visualization Credits

Cindy Starr (Global Science and Technology, Inc.): Lead Visualizer
Greg Shirah (NASA/GSFC): Animator
Marte Newcombe (GST): Animator
Dorothy Hall (NASA/GSFC): Scientist
George Riggs (SSAI): Scientist

Please give credit for this item to:
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, The SeaWiFS Project and GeoEye, Scientific Visualization Studio. NOTE: All SeaWiFS images and data presented on this web site are for research and educational use only. All commercial use of SeaWiFS data must be coordinated with GeoEye (NOTE: In January 2013, DigitalGlobe and GeoEye combined to become DigitalGlobe).

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Mission:
Terra

Data Used:

Terra/MODIS/Snow Cover Daily L3 Global 0.05Deg CMG (MOD10C1)

2002/07/01 - 2003/05/31, 2000/05/01 - 2000/10/31

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SeaStar/SeaWiFS/Monthly Land Reflectance

All SeaWiFS images and data presented on this web site are for research and educational use only. All commercial use of SeaWiFS data must be coordinated with GeoEye.

http://oceancolor.gsfc.nasa.gov/PRODUCTS/

Credit:
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, The SeaWiFS Project and GeoEye, Scientific Visualization Studio. NOTE: All SeaWiFS images and data presented on this web site are for research and educational use only. All commercial use of SeaWiFS data must be coordinated with GeoEye (NOTE: In January 2013, DigitalGlobe and GeoEye combined to become one DigitalGlobe.).

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Aqua/MODIS/Sea Ice Extent and Ice Surface Temperature Daily L3 Global 4km EASE-Grid Day (MYD29E1D)

2002/07/01 - 2003/05/31

http://nsidc.org/data/myd29e1d.html

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This item is part of this series:
Modis Daily Snow and Sea Ice Temperature 2002-2003

Goddard TV Tape:
G2007-002HD -- NASA's HD Blue Marble Resource Tape

Keywords:
DLESE >> Cryology
SVS >> HDTV
SVS >> Seasons
SVS >> Snow Cover
GCMD >> Earth Science >> Hydrosphere >> Snow/Ice >> Ice Growth/Melt
SVS >> Sea Ice Surface Temperature
SVS >> For Educators
SVS >> Hydrosphere >> Sea Ice
SVS >> Hydrosphere >> Snow/Ice
SVS >> Arctic Circle
SVS >> Arctic Circle >> Glaciers
SVS >> Seasons >> Vegetation
NASA Science >> Earth

GCMD keywords can be found on the Internet with the following citation: Olsen, L.M., G. Major, K. Shein, J. Scialdone, S. Ritz, T. Stevens, M. Morahan, A. Aleman, R. Vogel, S. Leicester, H. Weir, M. Meaux, S. Grebas, C.Solomon, M. Holland, T. Northcutt, R. A. Restrepo, R. Bilodeau, 2013. NASA/Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Earth Science Keywords. Version 8.0.0.0.0