Images & Animations
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Credit
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio
MODIS Snow Cover over the Sierra Nevada Mountains
The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) provides data in 36 spectral bands, some of which are used in an algorithm to map global snow cover. The animation shows a time series of MODIS snow-cover maps of the Sierra Nevada Mountains in California, derived from MODIS-derived daily snow maps with 500-m resolution for the winter and spring of 2001.
This image shows snow cover over the Sierra Nevada Mountains in California during the spring of 2001.
Metadata
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Sensor
Terra/MODIS -
Animation ID
2488 -
Video ID
SVS2002-0025 -
Start Timecode
00:10:11:01 -
End Timecode
00:12:21:28 -
Animator
Cindy Starr -
Studio
SVS -
Visualization Date
2002/06/26 -
Scientist
Dorothy Hall (NASA/GSFC) -
Datasets
Blue Marble landcover, Blue Marble Clouds, and sea ice -
Keywords
Snow, Snow Cover, Sierra Nevada Mountains -
DLESE Subject
Cryology -
Data Date
10/16/2001 to 04/23/2002 -
Animation Type
Regular -
Other Credits
Snow Data Preparation: The MODIS Snow & Ice Team, Janet Y. L. Chien. Blue Marble data courtesy of Reto Stockli. Technical Assistance: Randall Jones, Kevin Mahoney, Marte Newcombe, Tom Bridgman, Lori Perkins, Gregory Shirah, Eric Sokolowsky, James Williams.
