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NOAA GOES-R Series Advanced Baseline Imager (ABI) Level 2 Snow Cover

Published by NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information | National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce | Metadata Last Checked: January 27, 2026 | Last Modified: 2017-12-12T00:00:00.000+00:00
The GOES-R Advanced Baseline Imager (ABI) Snow Cover product contains an image with pixel values identifying the fraction of their areas covered by snow. The product includes data quality information that provides an assessment of the snow cover data values for on-earth pixels. The units of measure for the snow cover value is percent. The Snow Cover product image is produced on the ABI fixed grid at 2 km resolution for Full Disk, CONUS and Mesoscale coverage regions from GOES East and West. Product data is produced under the following conditions: Existence of land; Clear sky; Geolocated source data to local zenith angles of 90 degrees and solar zenith angles of 90 degrees.

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  • GOES-16 AWS S3 Explorer (Region: us-east-1)

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  • GOES-R Program Document Library

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  • Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Keywords

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Earth Science > Climate Indicators > Cryospheric Indicators > Snow Cover Terrestrial - Snow Cover Geographic Region > Equatorial Geographic Region > Mid-Latitude Geographic Region > Northern Hemisphere Geographic Region > Southern Hemisphere Geographic Region > Western Hemisphere Geographic Region > Tropics Continent > North America > United States Of America Continent > North America > Central America Continent > South America Ocean > Atlantic Ocean Ocean > Pacific Ocean Vertical Location > Land Surface GOES > Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites ABI-L2-FSC gov.noaa.class:GRABIPRD GRABIPRD ABI > Advanced Baseline Imager GOES-16 > Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite 16 GOES-17 > Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite 17 GOES-18 > Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite 18 GOES-19 > Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite 19 1 km - < 10 km or approximately .01 degree - < .09 degree DOC/NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC > National Climatic Data Center, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce DOC/NOAA/NESDIS/NCEI > National Centers for Environmental Information, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce DOC/NOAA/NESDIS/STAR > Center for Satellite Applications and Research, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce DOC/NOAA/NESDIS/OSPO > Office of Satellite and Product Operations, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce gov.noaa.class:GRABIPRD GRABIPRD ABIL2PROD ABIL2PFSCI, ABIL2PFSCR, ABIL2PFSCT

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identifier gov.noaa.ncdc:C01522
issued 2017-12-12T00:00:00.000+00:00
keyword 
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  "Terrestrial - Snow Cover",
  "Geographic Region > Equatorial",
  "Geographic Region > Mid-Latitude",
  "Geographic Region > Northern Hemisphere",
  "Geographic Region > Southern Hemisphere",
  "Geographic Region > Western Hemisphere",
  "Geographic Region > Tropics",
  "Continent > North America > United States Of America",
  "Continent > North America > Central America",
  "Continent > South America",
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  "ABI > Advanced Baseline Imager",
  "GOES-16 > Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite 16",
  "GOES-17 > Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite 17",
  "GOES-18 > Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite 18",
  "GOES-19 > Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite 19",
  "1 km - < 10 km or approximately .01 degree - < .09 degree",
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                                            []
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modified 2017-12-12T00:00:00.000+00:00
publisher 
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  "name": "NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information",
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rights otherRestrictions
spatial 6.2995,-81.3282,-156.2995,81.3282
temporal 2017-12-12T00:00:00+00:00/2017-12-12T00:00:00+00:00
title NOAA GOES-R Series Advanced Baseline Imager (ABI) Level 2 Snow Cover

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