Asia Snow Cover

  • Credit

    NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio

MODIS Snow Cover over Asia

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 the dynamic behavior of the advance and retreat of continental snow cover over Asia for the winter of 2001-02 from MODIS-derived 8-day composite snow maps with a spatial resolution of about 5 km.

This animation shows the dynamic behavior of the advance and retreat of continental snow cover over Asia for the winter of 2001-02.

Metadata

  • Sensor

    Terra/MODIS

  • Animation ID

    2485

  • Video ID

    SVS2002-0025

  • Start Timecode

    00:05:58:17

  • End Timecode

    00:07:11:05

  • 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, GCMD--Location--Asia

  • 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.