Cryosphere
Cryospheric variables include sea ice concentration, sea ice thickness, snow cover, glacier extent, and more. Overview pages summarize and compare selected datasets of a given variable.
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Climate datasets
![Global Monthly EASE-Grid Snow Water Equivalent Climatology: SSMR, SSMI Global Monthly EASE-Grid Snow Water Equivalent Climatology: SSMR, SSMI](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/2022-03/teaser_images_554.png?itok=ENSFXWUO)
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This data set comprises global, monthly satellite-derived snow water equivalent (SWE) climatologies from November 1978 through May 2007, and is updated with more recent data…
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Formats
- binary
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Timestep
- Monthly
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Collections
- N/A
Experts contributing reviews
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![Snow Water Equivalent (AMSR-E) Snow Water Equivalent (AMSR-E)](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/2022-03/teaser_images_555.png?itok=uQ3y0aVW)
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The Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer-Earth Observing System (AMSR-E) distributes daily, weekly, and monthly products which includes snow water equivalent. Note: "On 04…
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Formats
- HDF-EOS
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Timestep
- Daily, Monthly, Weekly
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Domain
- NH - Northern Hemisphere
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Collections
- N/A
Experts contributing reviews
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![GRACE: Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment: Surface mass, total water storage, and derived variables GRACE: Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment: Surface mass, total water storage, and derived variables](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/2022-03/teaser_images_610.png?itok=8RimFKhD)
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The Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) refers to a pair of NASA satellites that has flown in low-Earth orbit since 2002. The satellites use a precise microwave…
Main variables and Earth System components
Cryosphere Glaciers Ice Sheet Mass Land Groundwater surface water Water Storage Ocean Bottom pressure-
Timestep
- Daily, Monthly
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Domain
- Global
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Collections
- Diagnostic Data Sets, NCAR-DOE-CESM, landdiagnostics, landicediagnostics
Experts contributing reviews
- Swenson, Sean
![map of Tmin over eastern US (credit: Michele Thornton)](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/2023-08/DaymetTmin_AvgDaily_2006.EasternUS2.jpg?itok=YjE9R6qm)
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Daymet provides long-term, continuous, gridded estimates of daily weather and climatology variables by interpolating and extrapolating ground-based observations through…
Main variables and Earth System components
Atmosphere Maximum Air Temperature Minimum Air Temperature Precipitation Radiation Water Vapor Cryosphere Snow Water Equivalent-
Timestep
- Climatology, Daily
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Domain
- North America
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Collections
- N/A
Experts contributing reviews
- Thornton, Peter E