Short Name:

MOD10A2

MODIS/Terra Snow Cover 8-Day L3 Global 500m SIN Grid V005

The MODIS/Terra Snow Cover 8-Day L3 Global 500m Grid (MOD10A2) data set contains data fields for maximum snow cover extent over an eight-day compositing period and a chronology of snow occurrence observations in compressed Hierarchical Data Format-Earth Observing System (HDF-EOS) format, along with corresponding metadata. MOD10A2 consists of 1200 km by 1200 km tiles of 500 m resolution data gridded in a sinusoidal map projection. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) snow cover data are based on a snow mapping algorithm that employs a Normalized Difference Snow Index (NDSI) and other criteria tests.

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Spatial Extent:

Bounding Rectangle:

N: 90.0 S: -90.0 E: 180.0 W: -180.0

Data Format(s):

Distribution: HDF-EOS

Temporal Extent:

2000-02-24 to 2017-01-02

Platform(s):

TERRA

Data Center(s):

NASA NSIDC DAAC

Instrument(s):

MODIS

Version:

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Title: MODIS/Terra Snow Cover 8-Day L3 Global 500m SIN Grid V005
Version: 5
Publisher: NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center

GENERAL DOCUMENTATION: https://doi.org/10.5067/C574UGKQQU1T, Includes a user's guide, supplemental documents like ATBDs and academic papers, How Tos, FAQs, etc.

Purpose
Scientific Research
DOI
10.5067/C574UGKQQU1T
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Processing Level

Level 3

Geophysical variables mapped on a grid

Quality

Collection Progress
Complete

Related URLs

ISO Topic Categories

IMAGERY/BASE MAPS/EARTH COVER

Additional Attributes

Name: HORIZONTALTILENUMBER INT Description: Horizontal tile number of a grid which increases from left to right
Name: PROCESSVERSION STRING Description: Version of the process software that generated the product.
Name: QAPERCENTGOODQUALITY INT Description: Percent of pixels with good quality
Name: QAPERCENTOTHERQUALITY INT Description: Percent of pixels with not so good quality
Name: SNOWCOVERPERCENT INT Description: Percent of granule that was identified as snow covered; % based on area of granule (swath or tile).
Name: TileID INT Description: MODIS Land tile identification number which represents a geographical area on the surface of the Earth bounded by latitude and longitude coordinates.
Name: VERTICALTILENUMBER INT Description: Vertical tile number of a grid, which increases from top to bottom.
Name: identifier_product_doi STRING Description: Digital object identifier that uniquely identifies this data product
Name: identifier_product_doi_authority STRING Description: URL of the digital object identifier resolving authority

Coverage Type	Zone Identifier	Geometry	Granule Representation
HORIZONTAL		CARTESIAN	GEODETIC

Tiling Identification Systems

System Name	Coordinate 1 Min	Coordinate 1 Max	Coordinate 2 Min	Coordinate 2 Max
MODIS Tile SIN	0.0	35.0	0.0	17.0

Location Keywords

- Geographic Region
- Global Land

NASA NSIDC DAAC
ARCHIVER
- National Snow and Ice Data Center
  CIRES, 449 UCB
  University of Colorado
  Boulder, CO 80309-0449
1 303 492 6199

Email
Archiving Data Center
https://nsidc.org/daac

Home Page
NASA NSIDC DAAC
DISTRIBUTOR
- National Snow and Ice Data Center
  CIRES, 449 UCB
  University of Colorado
  Boulder, CO 80309-0449
1 303 492 6199

Email
Archiving Data Center
https://nsidc.org/daac

Home Page

Dorothy Hall
Technical Contact

Dorothy Hall
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC)
  Mail stop 614.1
  Greenbelt, MD 20771
This contact does not have any contact mechanisms listed.
Vince Salomonson
Technical Contact

Vince Salomonson
- University of Utah
  Department of Meteorology
  135 S 1460 E, Rm 809
  Salt Lake City, UT 84112
1 801 585 9492

Email
George Riggs
Technical Contact

George Riggs
- NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC)
  Science Systems and Applications, Inc.
  Code 614.1
  Greenbelt, MD 20771
1 301 614 5650

Email
NSIDC Services
Technical Contact

NSIDC Services
- CIRES, 449 UCB
  University of Colorado
  Boulder, CO 80309-0449
1 303 492 6199

1 303 492 2468

Email
Dorothy Hall
Technical Contact

Dorothy Hall
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC)
  Mail stop 614.1
  Greenbelt, MD 20771
This contact does not have any contact mechanisms listed.
Vince Salomonson
Technical Contact

Vince Salomonson
- University of Utah
  Department of Meteorology
  135 S 1460 E, Rm 809
  Salt Lake City, UT 84112
1 801 585 9492

Email
George Riggs
Technical Contact

George Riggs
- NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC)
  Science Systems and Applications, Inc.
  Code 614.1
  Greenbelt, MD 20771
1 301 614 5650

Email
NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center
User Services

NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center
- Boulder, Colorado
This contact does not have any contact mechanisms listed.

Metadata Dates

Creation	2006-12-18T00:00:00.000Z
Last Revision	2019-05-15T00:00:00.000Z

File Distribution Information

Format: HDF-EOS

Format Type: Native

Format Description: FTP 0.05 - 3 MB

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MODIS/Terra Snow Cover 8-Day L3 Global 500m SIN Grid V005

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Additional Attributes

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Tiling Identification Systems

Location Keywords

Data Centers

NASA NSIDC DAAC

NASA NSIDC DAAC

Data Contacts

Dorothy Hall

Dorothy Hall

Vince Salomonson

Vince Salomonson

George Riggs

George Riggs

NSIDC Services

NSIDC Services

Dorothy Hall

Dorothy Hall

Vince Salomonson

Vince Salomonson

George Riggs

George Riggs

NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center

NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center

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