European Space Agency (ESA) GlobSnow Snow Water Equivalent (SWE) v2.0 L3B Monthly Aggregated Maximum value data (1979-2013)

The ESA funded GlobSnow project produced snow water equivalent (SWE) monthly estimates for the Northern Hemisphere for the years 1979-2013.

SWE describes the amount of liquid water in the snow pack that would be formed if the snow pack was completely melted.

The monthly aggregate, a single product for each month, is calculated by determining the mean and the maximum of the weekly SWE samples. This dataset presents the monthly maximum value of SWE only.

The SWE product shall cover the Northern Hemisphere, excluding the mountainous areas, Greenland, the glaciers and snow on ice (lakes/seas/oceans).

The spatial resolution of the product is 25 km on EASE-grid projection.

Construction of the 30 years historical data set will be carried out using SMMR, SSM/I and SSMI/S data along with ground-based weather station data. The data are utilized for the different years as follows:

1979/09/11 - 1987/10/30 SMMR (Scanning Multichannel Microwave Radiometer onboard Nimbus-7 satellite)

1987/11/01 - 2008/12/31 SSM/I (Special Sensor Microwave/Imager onboard the DMSP satellite series F8/F11/F13)

2009/01/01 - present SSM/I(S) (Special Sensor Microwave/Imager (Sounder) onboard the DMSP satellite series F17/F18/)

These data may be redistributed and used without restriction.

Date (Publication): 2015-11-21T16:30:58

Date (Creation): 2015-11-21T16:30:58

Identifier: https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/93bd163433a2430d841a77518d7a40e0

Identifier: Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI) / 93bd163433a2430d841a77518d7a40e0

Author

Unavailable - Luojus, Kari ( author )

Custodian

Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) - custodian

Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell , Oxon , OX11 0QX , United Kingdom

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Owner

Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) - data_owner

Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell , Oxon , OX11 0QX , United Kingdom

01235446432

Distributor

Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) - distributor

Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell , Oxon , OX11 0QX , United Kingdom

01235446432

Principal investigator

Unavailable - Pulliainen, Jouni ( principal_investigator )

pointofContact

Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) - point_of_contact

Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell , Oxon , OX11 0QX , United Kingdom

01235446432

Publisher

Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI) - publisher

Helsinki , Finland

Maintenance and update frequency: Not planned

Update scope: Dataset

Keywords

esa
globsnow
swe
snow
climate
northern hemisphere
monthly

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

orthoimagery

Access constraints: Other restrictions

Other constraints: Public data: access to these data is available to both registered and non-registered users.

Use constraints: Other restrictions

Other constraints: Under the following licence http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/, appropriate use of these data may fall under any use. This message is intended as guidance, always read the full licence. When using these data you must cite them correctly using the citation given on the CEDA Data Catalogue record.

Spatial representation type: Grid

Metadata language: English

Topic category

Imagery base maps earth cover

Begin date: 1979-09-30T23:00:00

End date: 2013-05-30T23:00:00

Unique resource identifier: WGS 84

Distribution format

The SWE products are distributed in NetCDF-4 classic format, following the CF-1.6 convention: a single file contains the data for a single variable on the date given in the file name. ()

Distributor

Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) - Data Center Contact

Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell , Oxon , OX11 0QX , United Kingdom

01235446432