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The FLDAS dataset is designed to help with food security assessments in developing countries by providing information on climate-related variables.
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The GLDAS-2 system consists of three components: GLDAS-2.0, GLDAS-2.1, and GLDAS-2.2, which are forced with different meteorological input data.
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GLIMS is an international initiative to survey the world's glaciers and create a comprehensive inventory of land ice characteristics.
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Multiple datasets are available providing detailed ice and snow cover information for regions like Greenland and globally, utilizing data from satellites like Landsat and MODIS.
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The MERRA-2 collection includes land surface diagnostics such as baseflow flux, runoff, and soil wetness, providing hourly time-averaged data.
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FLDAS: Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWS NET) Land Data Assimilation System
The FLDAS dataset (McNally et al. 2017), was designed to assist with food security assessments in data-sparse, developing country settings. It includes information on many climate-related variables including moisture content, humidity, evapotranspiration, average soil temperature, total precipitation rate, etc. There are multiple different FLDAS datasets; … climate cryosphere evapotranspiration humidity ldas monthly -
GLDAS-2.1: Global Land Data Assimilation System
NASA Global Land Data Assimilation System Version 2 (GLDAS-2) has three components: GLDAS-2.0, GLDAS-2.1, and GLDAS-2.2. GLDAS-2.0 is forced entirely with the Princeton meteorological forcing input data and provides a temporally consistent series from 1948 through 2014. GLDAS-2.1 is forced with a combination of model … 3-hourly climate cryosphere evaporation forcing geophysical -
GLDAS-2.2: Global Land Data Assimilation System
NASA Global Land Data Assimilation System Version 2 (GLDAS-2) has three components: GLDAS-2.0, GLDAS-2.1, and GLDAS-2.2. GLDAS-2.0 is forced entirely with the Princeton meteorological forcing input data and provides a temporally consistent series from 1948 through 2014. GLDAS-2.1 is forced with a combination of model … 3-hourly climate cryosphere evaporation forcing geophysical -
GLIMS 2023: Global Land Ice Measurements From Space
Global Land Ice Measurements from Space (GLIMS) is an international initiative with the goal of repeatedly surveying the world's estimated 200,000 glaciers. The project seeks to create a globally comprehensive inventory of land ice, including measurements of glacier area, geometry, surface velocity, and snow line … cryosphere glacier glims ice landcover nasa -
GLIMS Current: Global Land Ice Measurements From Space
Global Land Ice Measurements from Space (GLIMS) is an international initiative with the goal of repeatedly surveying the world's estimated 200,000 glaciers. The project seeks to create a globally comprehensive inventory of land ice, including measurements of glacier area, geometry, surface velocity, and snow line … cryosphere glacier glims ice landcover nasa -
Greenland Ice & Ocean Mask - Greenland Mapping Project (GIMP)
This dataset provides complete land ice and ocean classification masks at 15 m for the Greenland ice sheet. Ice cover was mapped using a combination of orthorectified panchromatic (band 8) imagery from the Landsat 7 Enhanced Thematic Mapper Plus (ETM+), distributed by the USGS, and … arctic cryosphere gimp greenland ice nasa -
MERRA-2 M2T1NXLND: Land Surface Diagnostics V5.12.4
M2T1NXLND (or tavg1_2d_lnd_Nx) is an hourly time-averaged data collection in Modern-Era Retrospective analysis for Research and Applications version 2 (MERRA-2). This collection consists of land surface diagnostics, such a baseflow flux, runoff, surface soil wetness, root zone soil wetness, water at surface layer, water at … climate cryosphere evaporation ice merra precipitation -
MEaSUREs Greenland Ice Velocity: Selected Glacier Site Velocity Maps from Optical Images Version 2
This dataset, part of the NASA Making Earth System Data Records for Use in Research Environments (MEaSUREs) program, consists of mean monthly velocity maps for selected glacier outlet areas. The maps are generated by tracking visible features between optical image pairs acquired by the Landsat … arctic cryosphere gimp greenland ice nasa -
MOD10A1.061 Terra Snow Cover Daily Global 500m
The MOD10A1 V6.1 Snow Cover Daily Global 500m product contains snow cover, snow albedo, fractional snow cover, and quality assessment (QA) data. Snow cover data are based on a snow mapping algorithm that employs a Normalized Difference Snow Index (NDSI) and other criteria tests. General … albedo cryosphere daily geophysical global modis -
MOD10A2.061 Terra Snow Cover 8-Day L3 Global 500m
MOD10A2 is a snow cover dataset from the MODIS on the Terra satellite. The dataset reports the maximum snow cover extent during an eight-day period at the resolution of 500 m. An eight-day compositing period was chosen because that is the exact ground track repeat … cryosphere daily geophysical global modis nasa -
MYD10A1.061 Aqua Snow Cover Daily Global 500m
The MYD10A1 V6 Snow Cover Daily Global 500m product contains snow cover, snow albedo, fractional snow cover, and quality assessment (QA) data. Snow cover data are based on a snow mapping algorithm that employs a Normalized Difference Snow Index (NDSI) and other criteria tests. General … albedo aqua cryosphere daily geophysical global -
Reprocessed GLDAS-2.0: Global Land Data Assimilation System
NASA Global Land Data Assimilation System Version 2 (GLDAS-2) has three components: GLDAS-2.0, GLDAS-2.1, and GLDAS-2.2. GLDAS-2.0 is forced entirely with the Princeton meteorological forcing input data and provides a temporally consistent series from 1948 through 2014. GLDAS-2.1 is forced with a combination of model … 3-hourly climate cryosphere evaporation forcing geophysical