European Space Agency (ESA) GlobSnow L3B mean STD of 7 day running mean Snow Water Equivalent (SWE) Estimates (1979-2013)

The ESA funded GlobSnow project produced snow water equivalent (SWE) 7-day estimates and standard errors 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. Weekly Aggregated Snow Water Equivalent (Weekly L3B SWE) were calculated for each day based on a 7-day sliding time window aggregation of the daily SWE product.

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.

Identification info

Metadata Language: English (en)

Dataset Reference Date (): 2015-11-21T16:18:32

Dataset Reference Date (): 2015-11-21T16:18:32

Identifier: http://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/48d69bd4dd89464fb1f32c3669bfaa94

Identifier: Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI) / 48d69bd4dd89464fb1f32c3669bfaa94

Unavailable - Luojus, Kari ( author )

Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) - custodian

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

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Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) - data_owner

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

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Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) - distributor

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

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Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) - point_of_contact

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

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Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI) - publisher

Helsinki , Finland

Maintenance and update frequency: notPlanned

Update scope: dataset

Keywords

esa
globsnow
swe
snow
climate
northern hemisphere
monthly
error
estimate

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 ()

orthoimagery

Limitations on Public Access: otherRestrictions

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

Use constraints: otherRestrictions

Other constraints: Use of these data is covered by the following licence: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ . When using these data you must cite them correctly using the citation given on the CEDA Data Catalogue record.

Spatial representation type: grid

Topic category

Imagery base maps earth cover

Begin date: 1979-09-10T23:00:00

End date: 2013-05-30T22:59:59

Code: WGS 84

Distribution Information

Data 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. ()