Improved 8-day version 6.1 Terra–Aqua MODIS cloud-free snow cover and Randolph Glacier Inventory 6.0 product for high-mountain Asia between 2002 and 2022
The product contains improved MODIS 8-day Terra (MOD10A2) and Aqua (MYD10A2) collection 6.1 snow-cover composite product merged with Randolph Glacier Inventory (RGI6.0). The product is generated using MODIS Terra and Aqua 8-day snow cover products MOD10A2 and MYD10A2 collection 6.1 (C61), respectively. The data covers High Mountain Asia (HMA) covering latitude 24.32 − 49.19 N and Longitude 58.22 − 122.48 E. The data is available with eight-day temporal resolution and 500 m spatial resolution covering the period between 2002 and 2022. The name of the product is derived from MODIS Terra (MOD) MODIS Aqua (MYD), and Glacier (GL), Version 6.1 (61) as M*D10A2V61GL. The product is described in ordinal date and each year has 46 eight-day composite images in GeoTIFF file format. The data is described by the values 25, 50, 198, 199, 200, 238, 239, 240, 242, 248, 249, 250, and 252. Following is the description of values in the improved combined snow product
25: No Snow classes
50: Cloud
198: Snow only in Terra
199: Snow only in Aqua
200: Snow in both Terra and Aqua
238: Debris-covered ice with Terra Snow
239: Debris-covered ice with Aqua Snow
240: Exposed debris-covered ice
242: Debris-covered ice with Snow in both Terra and Aqua
248: Debris-free ice with Terra Snow
249: Debris-free ice with Aqua Snow
250: Exposed debris-free ice
252: Debris-free ice with snow in both Terra and Aqua
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- Date ( Publication )
- 2023-12-22
- Purpose
- The original MOD10A2* and MYD10A2* collection 6.1 products contain significant uncertainties of underestimation and overestimation in comparison to this product. The availability of this improved product can serve as a valuable dataset for observation and simulation of climate, hydro-glaciological forcings, calibration, validation, and other water-related studies.
- Status
- Completed
- Maintenance and update frequency
- As needed
- Keywords ( Place )
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- HMA
- HKH
- Keywords ( Theme )
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- MODIS
- Snow Cover
- Cryosphere
- Use limitation
- Made available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license (CC-BY 4.0). Suggested citation: ICIMOD (2023). An improved 8-day version 6.1 Terra–Aqua MODIS cloud-free snow cover and Randolph Glacier Inventory 6.0 product for high-mountain Asia between 2002 and 2022 [Data set]. ICIMOD. https://doi.org/10.26066/RDS.1973819
- Access constraints
- Copyright
- Use constraints
- Copyright
- Spatial representation type
- Grid
- Metadata language
- eng
- Character set
- UTF8
- Topic category
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- Geoscientific information
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- Reference system identifier
- WGS 1984
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- File identifier
- 54711a0a-c6ce-44b5-b3a6-5d5ebd03d73b XML
- Metadata language
- eng
- Character set
- UTF8
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Date stamp
- 2025-04-09T10:31:53
- Metadata standard name
- North American Profile of ISO 19115:2003