ESA Snow Climate Change Initiative (Snow_cci): Daily global Snow Cover Fraction – viewable snow (SCFV) from ATSR-2 (1995 – 2003), version 1.0 ...

• Main Authors: Solberg, Rune, Reksten, Jarle Hamar, Salberg, Arnt-Børre, Naegeli, Kathrin, Wunderle, Stefan, Schwaizer, Gabriele, Nagler, Thomas
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis 2023
• Subjects: Atmospheric sciences and Earth Observation Imagery; Greenland; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice Sheet
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5285/70061acca284432ca31fd8a5cbd604d0; https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/70061acca284432ca31fd8a5cbd604d0

This dataset contains Daily Snow Cover Fraction of viewable snow from ATSR-2, produced by the Snow project of the ESA Climate Change Initiative programme. Snow cover fraction viewable (SCFV) indicates the area of snow viewable from space over all land surfaces. In forested areas this refers to snow viewable on top of the forest canopy. The SCFV is given in percentage (%) per pixel. The global SCFV product is available at 0.01° grid size (about 1 km) for all land areas, excluding Antarctica and Greenland ice sheet. The coastal zones of Greenland are included. The SCFV time series provides daily products for the period 1995 – 2003. The SCFV product is based on Along-Track Scanning Radiometer 2 (ATSR-2) data aboard the ERS-2 satellite. The retrieval method of the snow_cci SCFV product from ATSR-2 data has been further developed and improved based on the ESA GlobSnow approach (Metsämäki et al. 2015) and complemented with a pre-classification module. In a first step, clouds are masked using an adapted version of ...