Programme for monitoring of the Greenland ice sheet (PROMICE): Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) Greenland albedo, 2000-2019

• Main Authors: Jason Eric Box, Dirk van As, Konrad Steffen, PROMICE Scientific Data
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: Arctic Data Center 2017
• Subjects: Arctic Report Card 2020; Arctic; Canada; Greenland; albedo; Ice Sheet; Iceland
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.22008/promice/data/modis_greenland_albedo

Daily 0.5 kilometers (km), 1 km and 5 km resolution Greenland, Arctic Canada and Iceland glaciated area albedo grids are available beginning April 2000 and (currently ending) 2019. The data are based on National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) /Terra Snow Cover Daily L3 Global 500m SIN Grid (MOD10A1) Collection 6 data with de-noising, gap filling and bias correction after Box et al. (2017). When the solar illumination is inadequate for an accurate MODIS retrieval in winter months (January, February, November, December), April values are swapped in. All days of the year and all non-ocean pixels have an albedo value. Box, J. E., D. van As, and K. Steffen, (2017). Programme for monitoring of the Greenland ice sheet (PROMICE): MODIS Greenland albedo. Dataset published via Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland. DOI: https://doi.org/10.22008/promice/data/modis_greenland_albedo