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Description

This global Level-3 (L3) data set provides a daily composite of snow cover and albedo derived from the 'MODIS/Aqua Snow Cover 5-Min L2 Swath 500m' data set (DOI:10.5067/MODIS/MYD10_L2.061). Each data granule is a 10°x10° tile projected to a 500 m sinusoidal grid.

The terms "Version 61" and "Collection 6.1" are used interchangeably in reference to this release of MODIS data.

Version Description

1. The low visible reflectance screen for snow cover using bands 2 and 4 was lowered from 0.10 to 0.07. 2. Cloud mask algorithm flags are set for 'probably cloudy' and 'probably clear' sky conditions in the algorithm flags QA data set.

Product Summary

Platforms
Aqua
Instruments
MODIS
Spatial Extent

N: 90 S: -90 E: 180 W: -180

Spatial Resolution
500 Meters x 500 Meters
Location
GLOBAL
Coordinate System
CARTESIAN
Granule Spatial Representation
GEODETIC
Temporal Extent
2002-07-04 to Present
Temporal Resolution
1 Day
Concept ID
C3091256524-NSIDC_CPRD
Data State
ACTIVE
Number of Files/Granules
2689515
Processing Level
3
Published
Science Keywords
Albedo ,
Snow Cover

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A new normal? Population growth rates of a rare alpine plant stabilize after periods of decline, but not enough to allow for full population recovery
  • Ellis, Sage L., Shriver, Robert K.
Enhancing Snow Cover Monitoring: A Modified Cloud Removal Methodology for MODIS Data in the Tapovan Vishnugad Basin
  • Vijayalekshmi, Gopika, Goel, N. K., Arora, Manohar
How well do the regional atmospheric and oceanic models describe the Antarctic sea ice albedo?
  • Verro, Kristiina, Aijala, Cecilia, Pirazzini, Roberta, Dadic, Ruzica, Maure, Damien, van de Berg, Willem Jan, Traversa, Giacomo, van Dalum, Christiaan T., Uotila, Petteri, Fettweis, Xavier, Di Mauro, Biagio, Johansson, Milla
MODIS (2001-2022) snow cover variability over the Italian territory
  • Manara, Veronica, Almagioni, Cecilia Delia, Diolaiuti, Guglielmina Adele, Maugeri, Maurizio, Fugazza, Davide
Evaluating Sentinel-1/-2 and MODIS fractional snow cover products for applications in alpine cosmic ray neutron snow monitoring
  • Krebs, Nora, Schattan, Paul, Premier, Valentina, Mejia-Aguilar, Abraham, Fey, Christine, Bremer, Magnus, Rutzinger, Martin
Extreme melt events on northern James Ross Island, Antarctic Peninsula region, linked to isentropic drawdown and Foehn winds
  • Matejka, Michael, Laska, Kamil, Stachon, Zdenek
The apparent effect of orbital drift on time series of MODIS MOD10A1 albedo on the Greenland ice sheet
  • Feng, Shunan, Wehrle, Adrien, Cook, Joseph Mitchell, Anesio, Alexandre Magno, Box, Jason Eric, Benning, Liane G., Tranter, Martyn
Synthesizing long-term satellite imagery consistent with climate data: Application to daily snow cover
  • Zakeri, Fatemeh, Mariethoz, Gregoire
Environmental variability and archaeological distributions in the Andean Araucania: A geographic approach
  • Lucero Ferreyra, Gustavo, Sacchi, Mariana, Maldonado, Mario Gabriel, Mera, Rodrigo, Barberena, Ramiro
Enhancing flood event predictions: Multi-objective calibration using gauge and satellite data
  • Gegenleithner, Sebastian, Krebs, Gerald, Dorfmann, Clemens, Schneider, Josef
Combined Use of Multiple Cloud-Free Snow Cover Products in China and Its
  • Zhang, Longhui, Zhang, Hongbo, Sun, Xueyan, Luo, Lun
Snow-vegetation-atmosphere interactions in alpine tundra
  • Pirk, Norbert, Aalstad, Kristoffer, Yilmaz, Yeliz A., Vatne, Astrid, Popp, Andrea L., Horvath, Peter, Bryn, Anders, Vollsnes, Ane Victoria, Westermann, Sebastian, Berntsen, Terje Koren, Stordal, Frode, Tallaksen, Lena Merete
Relationships between urban expansion and socioenvironmental indicators across multiple scales of watersheds: a case study among watersheds running through ...
  • Zhou, Xinyu, Peng, Wenshuo, Guo, Yichen, Chen, Peiyuan, Ren, Qiang, Feng, Xingyun, Wu, Pengxin, Huang, Qingxu
Exploring the use of multi-source high-resolution satellite data for snow water equivalent reconstruction over mountainous catchments
  • Premier, Valentina, Marin, Carlo, Bertoldi, Giacomo, Barella, Riccardo, Notarnicola, Claudia, Bruzzone, Lorenzo
Aerosol retrieval over snow using the RemoTAP algorithm
  • Zhang, Zihan, Fu, Guangliang, Hasekamp, Otto
Snow cover detection in mid-latitude mountainous and polar regions using nighttime light data
  • Huang, Yan, Song, Zhichao, Yang, Haoxuan, Yu, Bailang, Liu, Hongxing, Che, Tao, Chen, Jin, Wu, Jianping, Shu, Song, Peng, Xiaobao, Zheng, Zhaojun, Xu, Jiahui
The value of satellite soil moisture and snow cover data for the transfer of hydrological model parameters to ungauged sites
  • Tong, Rui, Parajka, Juraj, Szeles, Borbala, Greimeister-Pfeil, Isabella, Vreugdenhil, Mariette, Komma, Jurgen, Valent, Peter, Bloschl, Gunter
Effect of Cloud Mask on the Consistency of Snow Cover Products from
  • Liu, Anwei, Che, Tao, Huang, Xiaodong, Dai, Liyun, Wang, Jing, Deng, Jie
Stepwise prediction of runoff using proxy data in a small agricultural
  • Szeles, Borbala, Parajka, Juraj, Hogan, Patrick, Silasari, Rasmiaditya, Pavlin, Lovrenc, Strauss, Peter, Bloschl, Gunter
Snowpack dynamics in the Lebanese mountains from quasi-dynamically downscaled ERA5 reanalysis updated by assimilating remotely sensed fractional ...
  • Alonso-Gonzalez, Esteban, Gutmann, Ethan, Aalstad, Kristoffer, Fayad, Abbas, Bouchet, Marine, Gascoin, Simon
Sensitivity of snowmelt runoff modelling to the level of cloud coverage for snow cover extent from daily MODIS product collection 6
  • Hussainzada, Wahidullah, Lee, Han Soo, Vinayak, Bhanage, Khpalwak, Ghulam Farooq
The value of ASCAT soil moisture and MODIS snow cover data for calibrating a conceptual hydrologic model
  • Tong, Rui, Parajka, Juraj, Salentinig, Andreas, Pfeil, Isabella, Komma, Jurgen, Szeles, Borbala, Kuban, Martin, Valent, Peter, Vreugdenhil, Mariette, Wagner, Wolfgang, Bloschl, Gunter
Decision tree-based detection of blowing snow events in the European Alps
  • Xie, Zhipeng, Ma, Weiqiang, Ma, Yaoming, Hu, Zeyong, Sun, Genhou, Han, Yizhe, Hu, Wei, Su, Rongmingzhu, Fan, Yixi
The Added Value of Different Data Types for Calibrating and Testing a Hydrologic Model in a Small Catchment
  • Szeles, B., Parajka, J., Hogan, P., Silasari, R., Pavlin, L., Strauss, P., Bloschl, G.
Shallow ground temperature measurements on the highest volcano on Earth
  • Nagy, Balazs, Igneczi, Adam, Kovacs, Jozsef, Szalai, Zoltan, Mari, Laszlo
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