NRT AMSR2 Unified L3 Global Daily 25 km EASE-Grid Snow Water Equivalent V2

Description

The Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer 2 (AMSR2) instrument on the Global Change Observation Mission - Water 1 (GCOM-W1) provides global passive microwave measurements of terrestrial, oceanic, and atmospheric parameters for the investigation of global water and energy cycles. Near real-time (NRT) products are generated within 3 hours of the last observations in the file, by the Land Atmosphere Near real-time Capability for EOS (LANCE) at the AMSR Science Investigator-led Processing System (AMSR SIPS), which is collocated with the Global Hydrology Resource Center (GHRC) DAAC. The NRT AMSR2 Unified L3 Global Daily Snow Water Equivalent data set contains snow water equivalent (SWE) data and quality assurance flags mapped to Northern and Southern Hemisphere 25 km Equal-Area Scalable Earth Grids (EASE-Grids). Data are stored in HDF-EOS5 format and are available via HTTP from the EOSDIS LANCE system at https://lance.nsstc.nasa.gov/amsr2-science/data/level3/daysnow/. If data latency is not a primary concern, please consider using science quality products. Science products are created using the best available ancillary, calibration and ephemeris information. Science quality products are an internally consistent, well-calibrated record of the Earth's geophysical properties to support science.

Resources

Name Format Description Link
21 Data Format Conversion Recipes https://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/home/all-data-recipes#drp-formatcon
21 Instructions for citing GHRC data https://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/home/about-ghrc/citing-ghrc-daac-data
21 Files may be downloaded directly to your workstation from this link https://lance.nsstc.nasa.gov/amsr2-science/data/level3/daysnow/R02/hdfeos5/
21 Interactively browse imagery in EOSDIS Worldview https://worldview.earthdata.nasa.gov/?l=AMSRU2_Snow_Water_Equivalent_Daily%2CMODIS_Terra_CorrectedReflectance_TrueColor%2CCoastlines
21 Search results for publications that cite this dataset by its DOI. https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=10.5067%2FAMSRU%2FAU_DySno_NRT_R02
21 Files may be downloaded directly to your workstation from this link https://lance.itsc.uah.edu/amsr2-science/data/level3/daysnow/R02/hdfeos5/
22 Sample browse image https://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/pub/browse_sample/lance/AMSR_U2_DySno.jpg
21 The home page for the project or program which sponsored the dataset https://earthdata.nasa.gov/earth-observation-data/near-real-time

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  • snow-ice
  • cryosphere
  • terrestrial-hydrosphere
  • earth-science

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