High Mountain Asia ASCAT Freeze/Thaw/Melt Status V001

Description

This data set contains bulk landscape frozen or thawed status over seasonally frozen land, as well as snowmelt status over glacierized areas for the High Mountain Asia region. Daily Freeze/Thaw/Melt (F/T/M) status is derived from vertically polarized (V-pol) C-band (5.255 GHz) backscatter measurements that were acquired by the Advanced Scatterometer (ASCAT) on EUMETSAT Metop-A and Metop-B satellites. Swath-ordered observations are spatially enhanced using the Scatterometer Image Reconstruction (SIR) algorithm, posted on Earth-fixed 4.45 km grids, and interpolated to a daily product from the original 3-day A.M. overpasses.

Resources

Name Format Description Link
21 Search results for publications that cite this dataset by its DOI. https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=10.5067%2FL319IEPK63VC
21 Direct download via HTTPS protocol. https://n5eil01u.ecs.nsidc.org/HMA/HMA_FreezeThawMelt_ASCAT.001/
21 Data Access link for ITSD project https://nsidc.org/data/data-access-tool/HMA_FreezeThawMelt_ASCAT/versions/1/
21 Includes a user's guide, supplemental documents like ATBDs and academic papers, How Tos, FAQs, etc. https://doi.org/10.5067/L319IEPK63VC
21 NASA's newest search and order tool for subsetting, reprojecting, and reformatting data. https://search.earthdata.nasa.gov/search/granules?p=C1526098617-NSIDC_ECS&m=19.8984375%2175.796875%213%211%210%210%2C2&tl=1516648173%214%21%21&q=HMA_FreezeThawMelt_ASCAT&ok=HMA_FreezeThawMelt_ASCAT

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  • snow-ice
  • cryosphere
  • earth-science

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