High Mountain Asia ASCAT Freeze/Thaw/Melt Status V001
This data set contains bulk landscape frozen or thawed status over seasonally frozen land, as well as snowmelt status over glacierized areas for the High Mountain Asia region. Daily Freeze/Thaw/Melt (F/T/M) status is derived from vertically polarized (V-pol) C-band (5.255 GHz) backscatter measurements that were acquired by the Advanced Scatterometer (ASCAT) on EUMETSAT Metop-A and Metop-B satellites. Swath-ordered observations are spatially enhanced using the Scatterometer Image Reconstruction (SIR) algorithm, posted on Earth-fixed 4.45 km grids, and interpolated to a daily product from the original 3-day A.M. overpasses.
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| Spatial Extent: | Bounding Rectangle: N: 44.683 S: 19.125 E: 105.577 W: 63.427 |
Data Format(s): | Distribution: PNG, HDF5, GeoTIFF |
| Temporal Extent: | Platform(s): | METOP | |
| Data Center(s): | BYU/CRS/SCP | Instrument(s): | ASCAT |
| Version: | 1 | ||
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- Title: High Mountain Asia ASCAT Freeze/Thaw/Melt Status V001
- Version: 1
- Publisher: NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center
- GENERAL DOCUMENTATION: https://doi.org/10.5067/L319IEPK63VC, Includes a user's guide, supplemental documents like ATBDs and academic papers, How Tos, FAQs, etc.
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DOI
10.5067/L319IEPK63VC
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Level 3
Geophysical variables mapped on a grid
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Complete
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- GEOSCIENTIFIC INFORMATION
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| Coverage Type | Zone Identifier | Geometry | Granule Representation |
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| HORIZONTAL | CARTESIAN | GEODETIC |
Location Keywords
- CONTINENT
- ASIA
- SOUTHCENTRAL ASIA
- HIMALAYAS
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National Snow and Ice Data Center
CIRES, 449 UCB
University of Colorado
Boulder, CO 80309-0449
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National Snow and Ice Data Center
CIRES, 449 UCB
University of Colorado
Boulder, CO 80309-0449
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BYU/CRS/SCP
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BYU/CRS/SCP
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NSIDC Services
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CIRES, 449 UCB
University of Colorado
Boulder, CO 80309-0449
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Nicholas Steiner
Technical ContactNicholas Steiner
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Marshak Hall; Rm. 925
New York, NY 10031
212 650 6452
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Nicholas Steiner
Technical ContactNicholas Steiner
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Marshak Hall; Rm. 925
New York, NY 10031
212 650 6452
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Kyle McDonald
Technical ContactKyle McDonald
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NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center
User ServicesNASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center
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Boulder, Colorado
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Archive And Distribution Information
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Format: PNG
Format Type: Native
Format Description: HTTPS
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Format: HDF5
Format Type: Native
Format Description: HTTPS
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Format: GeoTIFF
Format Type: Native
Format Description: HTTPS