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NOAA Climate Data Record (CDR) of Northern Hemisphere (NH) Snow Cover Extent (SCE), Version 1
This NOAA Climate Data Record (CDR) is a record for the Northern Hemisphere (NH) Snow Cover Extent (SCE) spanning from October 4, 1966 to present, updated monthly after the 10th of each month. Data prior to June 1999 in the NH SCE CDR are based on satellite-derived maps of NH SCE produced weekly by trained NOAA meteorologists. In June 1999 weekly NOAA NH SCE maps ceased production, and were replaced by daily SCE output from the Interactive Multisensor Snow and Ice Mapping System (IMS). The weekly SCE maps are digitized to an 88x88 (cells) Cartesian grid laid over a NH polar stereographic projection. Each grid cell in the NH SCE CDR has a binary value, indicating snow covered or snow free. The NH SCE CDR has been used in international assessments of climate variability and change, and in investigations regarding the role of snow cover in the climate system. Mapping accuracy is such that this product is considered suitable for continental-scale climate studies. The data are updated monthly in netCDF file format with variables including SCE and National Meteorological Center (NMC) grid (88x88 cell) coordinates.
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NCEI Dataset Landing Page
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NOAA CDR page
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NCEI THREDDS Catalog
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NCEI Direct Download
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Registry of Open Data on AWS
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AWS S3 Explorer (Region: us-east-1)
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Azure Landing Page (Region: us-east)
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DSMR Publication at the NOAA Institutional Repository
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Northern Hemisphere spring snow cover variability and change over 1922 to 2010 including an assessment of uncertainty
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A long-term Northern Hemisphere snow cover extent data record for climate studies and monitoring
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Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Keywords
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CDR Program Contacts
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| description | This NOAA Climate Data Record (CDR) is a record for the Northern Hemisphere (NH) Snow Cover Extent (SCE) spanning from October 4, 1966 to present, updated monthly after the 10th of each month. Data prior to June 1999 in the NH SCE CDR are based on satellite-derived maps of NH SCE produced weekly by trained NOAA meteorologists. In June 1999 weekly NOAA NH SCE maps ceased production, and were replaced by daily SCE output from the Interactive Multisensor Snow and Ice Mapping System (IMS). The weekly SCE maps are digitized to an 88x88 (cells) Cartesian grid laid over a NH polar stereographic projection. Each grid cell in the NH SCE CDR has a binary value, indicating snow covered or snow free. The NH SCE CDR has been used in international assessments of climate variability and change, and in investigations regarding the role of snow cover in the climate system. Mapping accuracy is such that this product is considered suitable for continental-scale climate studies. The data are updated monthly in netCDF file format with variables including SCE and National Meteorological Center (NMC) grid (88x88 cell) coordinates. |
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| issued | 2012-01-01T00:00:00.000+00:00 |
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"Earth Science > Terrestrial > Snow/Ice > Snow Cover",
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"ESSA > Environmental Science Services administration",
"NOAA-2 > National Oceanic & atmospheric Administration-2",
"NOAA-3 > National Oceanic & atmospheric Administration-3",
"NOAA-4 > National Oceanic & atmospheric Administration-4",
"NOAA-5 > National Oceanic & atmospheric Administration-5",
"NOAA-6 > National Oceanic & atmospheric Administration-6",
"NOAA-7 > National Oceanic & atmospheric Administration-7",
"NOAA-9 > National Oceanic & atmospheric Administration-9",
"NOAA-11 > National Oceanic & atmospheric Administration-11",
"NOAA-14 > National Oceanic & atmospheric Administration-14",
"NOAA-15 > National Oceanic & atmospheric Administration-15",
"SMS > Synchronous Meteorological satellites",
"DMSP > Defense Meteorological Satellite program",
"GOES > NOAA Geostationary Operational environmental Satellites",
"GOES-7 > Geostationary Operational environmental Satellite 7",
"GOES-8 > Geostationary Operational environmental Satellite 8",
"GOES-9 > Geostationary Operational environmental Satellite 9",
"TIROS-N > Television Infrared Observation satellite-N",
"GMS > Japan Geostationary Meteorological satellite",
"GMS-4 > Geostationary Meteorological satellite-4",
"GMS-5 > Geostationary Meteorological satellite-5",
"METEOSAT",
"METEOSAT-5 > METEOSAT Operational programme 2 (MOP-1)",
"METEOSAT-6 > METEOSAT Operational programme 3 (MOP-1)",
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"METOP > Meteorological Operational satellite",
"Aqua > Earth Observing System, Aqua",
"Video Camera",
"VAS > VISSR Atmospheric Sounder",
"SSMI/S > Special Sensor Microwave imager/Sounder",
"VHRR > Very High Resolution Radiometer",
"VISSR > Visible And Infrared Spin Scan radiometer",
"AVHRR > Advanced Very High Resolution radiometer",
"SEVIRI > Spinning Enhanced Visible And infrared Imager",
"MODIS > Moderate-Resolution Imaging spectroradiometer",
"AMSR > Advanced Microwave Scanning radiometer",
"AMSU-B > Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit b (AMSU-B)",
"ASCAT",
"MVIRI > METEOSAT Visible And Infra-red imager",
"Geographic Region > Northern Hemisphere",
"Vertical Location > Land Surface",
"NOAA OneStop Project",
"DOC/NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC > National Climatic Data Center, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce",
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| license | https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ |
| modified | 2012-01-01T00:00:00.000+00:00 |
| publisher |
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"name": "National Centers for Environmental Information",
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| references |
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"https://doi.org/10.25923/whkf-bb86",
"http://www.the-cryosphere.net/5/219/2011/tc-5-219-2011.html",
"https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-7-137-2015"
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| spatial | 180.0,-1.0,-180.0,89.0 |
| temporal | 1966-10-04T00:00:00+00:00/1966-10-04T00:00:00+00:00 |
| title | NOAA Climate Data Record (CDR) of Northern Hemisphere (NH) Snow Cover Extent (SCE), Version 1 |
