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Data Center Contact
Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)
Data Center Contact
01235446432
Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
Harwell
Oxon
OX11 0QX
support@ceda.ac.uk
pointOfContact
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European Space Agency (ESA) GlobSnow Snow Water Equivalent (SWE) v2.0 L3B Monthly Aggregated Maximum value data (1979-2013)
2015-11-21T16:30:58
publication
2015-11-21T16:30:58
creation
93bd163433a2430d841a77518d7a40e0
Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI)
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 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.
Anabelle Guillory
contact
Guillory
anabelle.guillory@stfc.ac.uk
ceda_officer
Sam Pepler
contact
Pepler
sam.pepler@stfc.ac.uk
ceda_officer
Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
contact
01235446432
Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
Harwell
Oxon
OX11 0QX
support@ceda.ac.uk
custodian
Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
contact
01235446432
Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
Harwell
Oxon
OX11 0QX
support@ceda.ac.uk
data_owner
Kari Luojus
Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI)
contact
Luojus
Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI)
Helsinki
Kari.Luojus@fmi.fi
author
Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
contact
01235446432
Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
Harwell
Oxon
OX11 0QX
support@ceda.ac.uk
metadata_owner
Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
contact
01235446432
Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
Harwell
Oxon
OX11 0QX
support@ceda.ac.uk
point_of_contact
Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI)
contact
Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI)
Helsinki
publisher
Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
contact
01235446432
Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
Harwell
Oxon
OX11 0QX
support@ceda.ac.uk
distributer
Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
contact
01235446432
Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
Harwell
Oxon
OX11 0QX
support@ceda.ac.uk
curator
notPlanned
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.
CLIPC
orthoimagery
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
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Public; Licence: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
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Public; Licence: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
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2013-05-31T00:00:00
Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI)
Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)
Data Center Contact
01235446432
Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
Harwell
Oxon
OX11 0QX
support@ceda.ac.uk
distributor
http://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/93bd163433a2430d841a77518d7a40e0
Dataset Homepage
information
http://browse.ceda.ac.uk/browse/neodc/esa_globsnow/data/v2.0/L3B_monthly_max
DOWNLOAD
Download Data
download
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=4914809&tag=1
Snowmelt detection: M. Takala, J. Pulliainen, S. J. Metsamaki and J. T. Koskinen, "Detection of Snowmelt Using Spaceborne Microwave Radiometer Data in Eurasia From 1979 to 2007," in IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, vol. 47, no. 9, pp. 2996-3007, Sept. 2009. doi: 10.1109/TGRS.2009.2018442
information
http://browse.ceda.ac.uk/browse/neodc/esa_globsnow/doc/GlobSnow-FInalReport.pdf
GlobSnow 2 Final Report
information
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0034425706000241
Basic Methodology: Jouni Pulliainen, Mapping of snow water equivalent and snow depth in boreal and sub-arctic zones by assimilating space-borne microwave radiometer data and ground-based observations, Remote Sensing of Environment, Volume 101, Issue 2, 30 March 2006, Pages 257-269, ISSN 0034-4257, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2006.01.002.
information
http://www.globsnow.info/index.php?page=Snow_Water_Equivalent
ESA Globsnow SWE webpage
information
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0034425711003166
Implementation: Matias Takala, Kari Luojus, Jouni Pulliainen, Chris Derksen, Juha Lemmetyinen, Juha-Petri Kärnä, Jarkko Koskinen, Bojan Bojkov, Estimating northern hemisphere snow water equivalent for climate research through assimilation of space-borne radiometer data and ground-based measurements, Remote Sensing of Environment, Volume 115, Issue 12, 15 December 2011, Pages 3517-3529, ISSN 0034-4257, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2011.08.014.
information
http://browse.ceda.ac.uk/browse/neodc/esa_globsnow/doc/GlobSnow-2_final_newsletter.pdf
GlobSnow2 Final Newsletter
information
http://cedadocs.badc.rl.ac.uk/1263/1/GS2_SWE_ATBD.pdf
SWE Algorithm Theoretical Basis document
information
dataset
SWE Data provided by the FMI as part of the CLIPC project in 2015.