National Snow & Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center

nasa-nsidcdaac-mod10c2

MODIS/Terra Snow Cover 8-Day L3 Global 0.05Deg CMG

The MODIS/Terra Snow Cover 8-Day L3 Global 0.05Deg CMG (MOD10C2) data set contains snow cover and Quality Assessment (QA) data, latitudes and longitudes in compressed Hierarchical Data Format-Earth Observing System (HDF-EOS) format, and corresponding metadata. This data set consists of 7200 columns by 3600 rows of global arrays of snow cover in a 0.05 degree Climate Modeling Grid (CMG). MODIS snow cover data are based on a snow mapping algorithm that employs a Normalized Difference Snow Index (NDSI) and other criteria tests.

http://nsidc.org/data/MOD10C2

Identified by : MOD10C2

This dataset was released on December 18, 2006.

The time range for this dataset starts at February 24, 2000.

The spatial range for this dataset is -90° to 90° latitude, and -180° to 180° longitude. map (center)

This dataset uses data from an instance of the moderate-resolution-imaging-spectroradiometer instrument on the terra platform.
DOI : 10.5067/6PMGAHFLY5EV
Also known as :

• dataset oai:nsidc/MOD10C2 (nsidc lexicon)