MEaSUREs Global Record of Daily Landscape Freeze/Thaw Status

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Edition: V01

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Publisher: National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC)

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Originator: John Kimball

Publication_Date: 20100915

Title: MEaSUREs Global Record of Daily Landscape Freeze/Thaw Status

Edition: V01

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Series_Name: MEaSUREs

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Publication_Place: Boulder, Colorado USA

Publisher: National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC)

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Online_Linkage: http://nsidc.org/data/nsidc-0477.html

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The MEaSUREs Global Record of Daily Landscape Freeze/Thaw Status, Version 01 data set is derived from the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) satellite series using the Special Sensor Microwave Imager (SSM/I). The parameters in this data set include AM freeze thaw, PM freeze thaw, combined freeze thaw, transitional freeze thaw, and inverse transitional freeze thaw states of water. The data set presents global coverage from morning, afternoon, and daily combined overpasses from 01 January 1988 to 31 December 2007. The data set is available through FTP and contains files in the HDF5, PNG, and GIF formats. These data were generated through a grant from the NASA Making Earth Science Data Records for Use in Research Environments (MEaSUREs) program. Note: These data are considered provisional pending a review by the MEaSUREs project. Once the data has been reviewed, this statement will be removed from this documentation.

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REFERENCE: Armstrong, R. L., and M. J. Brodzik. 1995. An Earth-Gridded SSM/I Data Set for Cryospheric Studies and Global Change Monitoring. Advances in Space Research 16: 155-63. Brodzik, M. J. and R. L. Armstrong. 2008. updated daily. Near-Real-Time DMSP SSM/I-SSMIS Pathfinder Daily EASE-Grid Brightness Temperatures, 1988-2007. Boulder, Colorado USA: National Snow and Ice Data Center. Ferraro, R. R., F. Weng, N. C. Grody, and A. Basist. 1996. An eight-year (1987-1994) time series of rainfall, clouds, water vapor, snow cover, and sea ice derived from SSM/I measurements. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 77(5), 891-905. Friedl, M. A., D. K. McIver, J. C. F. Hodges, X. Y. Zhang, D. Muchoney, A. H. Strahler, C. E. Woodcock, S. Gopal, A. Schneider, A. Cooper, A. Baccini, F. Gao, and C. Schaaf. 2002. Global land cover mapping from MODIS: algorithms and early results. Remote Sensing of Environment, 83, 287-302 GLOBE Task Team and others (Hasting, D. A., P. K. Dunbar, G. M. Elphingstone et al.). 1999. The global land one-kilometer base elevation (GLOBE) digital elevation model, version 1.0. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Geophysical Data Center, 325 Broadway, Boulder, Colorado 80305-3328, U.S.A. Digital data base at http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/toto/globe.html and CD-ROMs. Kim, Y., J. S. Kimball, K. C. McDonald, and J. Glassy. 2011. Developing a Global Data Record of Daily Landscape Freeze/Thaw Status using Satellite Microwave Remote Sensing. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. McDonald, K.C, and J.S. Kimball, 2005. Hydrological application of remote sensing: Freeze Thaw states using both active and passive microwave sensors. Encyclopedia of Hydrological Sciences. Part 5. Remote Sensing. M.G. Anderson and J.J. McDonnell (Eds.), John Wiley & Sons Ltd. DOI: 10.1002/0470848944.hsa059a.

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Beginning_Date: 19880101

Ending_Date: 20071231

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Transfer_Size: 294 MB

Transfer_Size: 4 GB

Transfer_Size: 458 MB

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Refine your granule search with ECHO's next generation Earth Science discovery tool (Reverb) using information from this record.

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Freeze/Thaw Earth System Data Record Web Site

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Metadata_Review_Date: 20120514

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