Snow Water Equivalent (AMSR-E)

Snow Water Equivalent (AMSR-E)

The Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer-Earth Observing System (AMSR-E) distributes daily, weekly, and monthly products which includes snow water equivalent. Note: "On 04 October 2011, the AMSR-E instrument on board the Aqua satellite stopped producing data due to a problem with the rotation of its antenna."

Key Limitations

AMSR-E snow water equivalent (SWE) is biased low

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Suggested Data Citation
Dataset DOIs
None
Hosted Climate Index Files
None
Data Access
  1. AMSR-E/Aqua L3 Global Snow Water Equivalent EASE-Grids
Usage Restrictions
None

Key Figures

Daily snow water equivalent for January 1, 2011. Left: on the original EASE grid; right after regridding to a 0.25 degree grid.

Other Information

Earth system components and main variables
Cryosphere, Snow Water Equivalent
Type of data product
Satellite Data Products, Platforms, Aqua, AMSRE
Dataset collections
None

Years of record
to
Metadata ID
http://nsidc.org/collections/AE_MoSno
Data time period extended
None
Timestep
Daily, Monthly, Weekly
Domain
NH - Northern Hemisphere
Formats:
HDF-EOS
Input Data
None
Vertical Levels:
Surface Data Set
Missing Data Flag
Missing data present
Ocean or Land
Land Only
Spatial Resolution

EASE 721x721 grid

Model Resolution (reanalysis)
None
Data Assimilation Method
None
Model Vintage (reanalysis)
None