ESA Snow Climate Change Initiative (Snow_cci): Daily global Snow Cover Fraction - snow on ground (SCFG) from AVHRR (1982 - 2018), version 2.0 ...

• Main Authors: Naegeli, Kathrin, Neuhaus, Christoph, Salberg, Arnt-Børre, Schwaizer, Gabriele, Weber, Helga, Wiesmann, Andreas, Wunderle, Stefan, Nagler, Thomas
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis 2022
• Subjects: Atmospheric sciences and Earth Observation Imagery; Greenland; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5285/3f034f4a08854eb59d58e1fa92d207b6; https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/3f034f4a08854eb59d58e1fa92d207b6

This dataset contains Daily Snow Cover Fraction (snow on ground) from AVHRR, produced by the Snow project of the ESA Climate Change Initiative programme. Snow cover fraction on ground (SCFG) indicates the area of snow observed from space over land surfaces, in forested areas corrected for the transmissivity of the forest canopy. The SCFG is given in percentage (%) per pixel. The global SCFG product is available at about 5 km pixel size for all land areas, excluding Antarctica and Greenland ice sheets. The coastal zones of Greenland are included. The SCFG time series provides daily products for the period 1982-2018. The product is based on medium resolution optical satellite data from the Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR). Clouds are masked using the Cloud CCI cloud v3.0 mask product. The retrieval method of the snow_cci SCFG product from AVHRR data has been further developed and improved based on the ESA GlobSnow approach described by Metsämäki et al. (2015) and complemented with a ...