ESA Snow Climate Change Initiative (Snow_cci): Daily global Snow Cover Fraction – snow on ground (SCFG) from AATSR (2002 – 2012), version 1.0 ...

This dataset contains Daily Snow Cover Fraction (snow on ground) from AATSR, 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 on land surfaces, in forested areas corrected for the transpar...

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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/e7e31b86b2644e0da69090bc37360c97
https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/e7e31b86b2644e0da69090bc37360c97
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Summary:This dataset contains Daily Snow Cover Fraction (snow on ground) from AATSR, 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 on land surfaces, in forested areas corrected for the transparency (“transmissivity”) of the forest canopy. The SCFG is given in percentage (%) per grid cell. The global SCFG 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 SCFG time series provides daily products for the period 2002 – 2012. The SCFG product is based on Advanced Along-Track Scanning Radiometer (AATSR) data aboard the Envisat satellite. The retrieval method of the snow_cci SCFG product from AATSR 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 ...

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