National Snow & Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center

nasa-nsidcdaac-mod10cm

MODIS/Terra Snow Cover Monthly L3 Global 0.05Deg CMG

The MODIS/Terra Snow Cover Monthly L3 Global 0.05Deg CMG (MOD10CM) data set, new for Version 5 (V005), contains snow cover and Quality Assessment (QA) data in Hierarchical Data Format- Earth Observing System (HDF-EOS) format, and corresponding metadata. This data set consists of 7200 column by 3600 row global arrays of snow cover in a 0.05 deg 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. Monthly average snow cover is calculated from the daily global products for the month.

http://nsidc.org/data/MOD10CM

Identified by : MOD10CM

This dataset was released on December 18, 2006.

The time range for this dataset starts at March 01, 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/IPPLURB6RPCN
Also known as :

• dataset oai:nsidc/MOD10CM (nsidc lexicon)