| Conventions: | CF-1.6 |
| title: | AMSR-E/AMSR2 Unified L3 Global Daily 25 km EASE-Grid Snow Water Equivalent |
| references: | Please cite these data as: Tedesco, M. and J. Jeyaratnam. 2019. AMSR-E/AMSR2 Unified L3 Global Daily 25 km EASE-Grid Snow Water Equivalent. [Indicate subset used]. NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center. Boulder, Colorado, USA. doi:https://doi.org/10.5067/8AE2ILXB5SM6. |
| source: | satellite observation |
| institution: | NASA's AMSR Science Investigator-led Processing System (SIPS) |
| history: | This version of the AMSR-E/AMSR2 L3 Snow processing code was provided by the science team on January 5, 2021. For details, see the release notes provided in the DAP. |
| StructMetadata_0: | String origname: StructMetadata.0 fullnamepath: /HDFEOS INFORMATION/StructMetadata.0 |
| CoreMetadata_0: | String origname: CoreMetadata.0 fullnamepath: /HDFEOS INFORMATION/CoreMetadata.0 |
| Northern_Hemisphere_SWE_NorthernDaily: | Array of Bytes [Northern_Hemisphere_YDim = 0..720][Northern_Hemisphere_XDim = 0..720] scale_factor: 1.000000000 coordinates: lon lat, Northern_Hemisphere_YDim Northern_Hemisphere_XDim long_name: Daily snow water equivalent (SWE) _FillValue: 255 packing_convention: netCDF packing_convention_description: unpacked = scale_factor x packed + add_offset comment: Values: 0-240 -- SWE (mm), 247 -- Incorrect spacecraft attitude, 248 -- Off-earth, 252 -- Land or snow impossible, 253 -- Ice sheet, 254 -- Water, 255 -- missing value units: mm format: f3. origname: SWE_NorthernDaily fullnamepath: /HDFEOS/GRIDS/Northern Hemisphere/Data Fields/SWE_NorthernDaily |
| Northern_Hemisphere_Flags_NorthernDaily: | Array of Bytes [Northern_Hemisphere_YDim = 0..720][Northern_Hemisphere_XDim = 0..720] coordinates: lon lat, Northern_Hemisphere_YDim Northern_Hemisphere_XDim _FillValue: 255 long_name: QA flag for daily SWE flag_meanings: Non_validated Off_earth Land_or_snow_impossible Ice_sheet Water No_Data flag_values: 241, 248, 252, 253, 254, 255 origname: Flags_NorthernDaily fullnamepath: /HDFEOS/GRIDS/Northern Hemisphere/Data Fields/Flags_NorthernDaily |
| Northern_Hemisphere_lon: | Array of 32 bit Reals [Northern_Hemisphere_XDim = 0..720][Northern_Hemisphere_YDim = 0..720] long_name: Longitude units: degrees_east standard_name: longitude origname: lon fullnamepath: /HDFEOS/GRIDS/Northern Hemisphere/lon coordinates: Northern_Hemisphere_XDim Northern_Hemisphere_YDim |
| Northern_Hemisphere_lat: | Array of 32 bit Reals [Northern_Hemisphere_XDim = 0..720][Northern_Hemisphere_YDim = 0..720] long_name: Latitude units: degrees_north standard_name: latitude origname: lat fullnamepath: /HDFEOS/GRIDS/Northern Hemisphere/lat coordinates: Northern_Hemisphere_XDim Northern_Hemisphere_YDim |
| Southern_Hemisphere_SWE_SouthernDaily: | Array of Bytes [Southern_Hemisphere_YDim = 0..720][Southern_Hemisphere_XDim = 0..720] scale_factor: 2.000000000 coordinates: lon lat, Southern_Hemisphere_YDim Southern_Hemisphere_XDim long_name: Daily snow water equivalent (SWE) _FillValue: 255 packing_convention: netCDF packing_convention_description: unpacked = scale_factor x packed + add_offset comment: Values: 0-240 -- (SWE divided by 2 (mm)), 247 -- Incorrect spacecraft attitude, 248 -- Off-earth, 252 -- Land or snow impossible, 253 -- Ice sheet, 254 -- Water, 255 -- missing value units: mm format: f3. origname: SWE_SouthernDaily fullnamepath: /HDFEOS/GRIDS/Southern Hemisphere/Data Fields/SWE_SouthernDaily |
| Southern_Hemisphere_Flags_SouthernDaily: | Array of Bytes [Southern_Hemisphere_YDim = 0..720][Southern_Hemisphere_XDim = 0..720] coordinates: lon lat, Southern_Hemisphere_YDim Southern_Hemisphere_XDim _FillValue: 255 long_name: QA flag for daily SWE flag_meanings: Non_validated Off_earth Land_or_snow_impossible Ice_sheet Water No_Data flag_values: 241, 248, 252, 253, 254, 255 origname: Flags_SouthernDaily fullnamepath: /HDFEOS/GRIDS/Southern Hemisphere/Data Fields/Flags_SouthernDaily |
| Southern_Hemisphere_lon: | Array of 32 bit Reals [Southern_Hemisphere_XDim = 0..720][Southern_Hemisphere_YDim = 0..720] long_name: Longitude standard_name: longitude units: degrees_east origname: lon fullnamepath: /HDFEOS/GRIDS/Southern Hemisphere/lon coordinates: Southern_Hemisphere_XDim Southern_Hemisphere_YDim |
| Southern_Hemisphere_lat: | Array of 32 bit Reals [Southern_Hemisphere_XDim = 0..720][Southern_Hemisphere_YDim = 0..720] long_name: Latitude units: degrees_north standard_name: latitude origname: lat fullnamepath: /HDFEOS/GRIDS/Southern Hemisphere/lat coordinates: Southern_Hemisphere_XDim Southern_Hemisphere_YDim |
| Northern_Hemisphere_XDim: | Array of 32 bit Reals [Northern_Hemisphere_XDim = 0..720] axis: X long_name: x-coordinate in Cartesian system origname: XDim fullnamepath: /HDFEOS/GRIDS/Northern Hemisphere/XDim |
| Northern_Hemisphere_YDim: | Array of 32 bit Reals [Northern_Hemisphere_XDim = 0..720] axis: Y long_name: y-coordinate in Cartesian system origname: YDim fullnamepath: /HDFEOS/GRIDS/Northern Hemisphere/YDim |
| Southern_Hemisphere_XDim: | Array of 32 bit Reals [Southern_Hemisphere_XDim = 0..720] axis: X long_name: x-coordinate in Cartesian system origname: XDim fullnamepath: /HDFEOS/GRIDS/Southern Hemisphere/XDim |
| Southern_Hemisphere_YDim: | Array of 32 bit Reals [Southern_Hemisphere_XDim = 0..720] axis: Y long_name: y-coordinate in Cartesian system origname: YDim fullnamepath: /HDFEOS/GRIDS/Southern Hemisphere/YDim |