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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

Technical Notes

Tedesco, Marco, Richard E. J. Kelly, James L. Foster, and Alfred T. C. Chang. 2004, updated daily. AMSR-E/Aqua Daily L3 Global Snow Water Equivalent EASE-Grids V002, [list the dates of the data used]. Boulder, Colorado USA: National Snow and Ice Data Cent

Years of Record

2002/06 to 2011/10
temporal metadataID:
http://nsidc.org/collections/AE_MoSno

Formats

Timestep

Daily | Monthly | Weekly

Domain

NH - Northern Hemisphere

Spatial Resolution

EASE 721x721 grid

Ocean or Land

Land Only

Missing Data Flag

missing data present

Vertical Levels

Surface Data Set

Earth system components and main variables

Cryosphere, Snow Water Equivalent

Data Access: Please Cite data sources, following the data providers' instructions.

  1. AMSR-E/Aqua L3 Global Snow Water Equivalent EASE-Grids

Key Figures

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

Cite this page

National Center for Atmospheric Research Staff (Eds). Last modified 20 May 2016. "The Climate Data Guide: Snow Water Equivalent (AMSR-E)." Retrieved from https://climatedataguide.ucar.edu/climate-data/snow-water-equivalent-amsr-e.

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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."

2002-06/2011-10