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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
Author
  ICIMOD - Sher Muhammad ( Remote Sensing Specialist )
Nepal
977-1-5275222
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 )
  • HMA
  • HKH
Keywords ( Theme )
  • 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
  • Geoscientific information
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Reference system identifier
WGS 1984
Distributor
  ICIMOD -
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
Author
  ICIMOD - Sher Muhammad ( Remote Sensing Specialist )
 
 

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