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The Winter of 2013 – 2014: A Cold, Snowy and Icy Winter in North America

This animation shows the snow cover over North America during the 2013-2014 winter as well as the ice concentration over the Great Lakes. The date and a graph showing the percent of ice cover over the Great Lakes and Lake Superior is shown on this version. file size is 5.2 MB

Snow Cover & Sea Ice Animation

This animation shows the advance and retreat of daily snow cover along with daily sea ice surface temperature globally from September 2002 through May 2003. file size is 31MB

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Multilayer Greenland Ice Surface Temperature, Surface Albedo, and Water Vapor from MODIS, 2000-2019

This multilayer data set includes standard MODIS Collection 6.1 ice surface temperature (IST) and derived melt maps, as well as MODIS Collection 6.0 albedo and water vapor for Greenland, at a spatial resolution of 0.78 km, derived from the Terra MODIS instrument. Also included is an ice mask and a basins mask for delineating drainage basins in Greenland. The dataset is described at NSIDC and in the following publication:

Hall, D.K., Cullather, R.I., Comiso, J.C., DiGirolamo, N.E., Nowicki, S.M and B.C. Medley. 2018. A multilayer IST – albedo product of Greenland from MODIS. Remote Sensing [Special Issue: Remote Sensing of Essential Climate Variables and their Applications], 10(4): 555, https://doi:10.3390/rs10040555.

The complete dataset is available from the National Snow and Ice Data Center at the following URL: https://nsidc.org/data/modgrnld/versions/1

Some samples of an earlier version of the IST maps are provided below.

Contact Dorothy Hall for more information.