GLDAS-2.0 (Noah LSM)
From variable 3.12
Snow Depth/SWE
- description of data http://ldas.gsfc.nasa.gov/gldas/
- description of data http://disc.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/hydrology/data-holdings
- reference Rodell et al. (2004)
- source
- NASA
- data type
- Land surface reanalysis/model
- spatial domain
- Global
- spatial resolution
- 0.25ᵒ x 0.25ᵒ
- temporal coverage
- 1948-2014
- time step
- 3h; Monthly
- data format
- GeoTIFF; KMZ; NetCDF
- comments
- Noah land surface model driven offline by GLDAS-2 forced with the global meteorological dataset from Princeton University (Sheffield et al., 2006). Abnormally high SWE values over Greenland and other points with conditions conducive to land ice formation. These need to be masked out. Excepting these locations, this product has anomalously low climatological SWE compared to most other products. Infrequent updates. Online documentation (Rui and Beaudoing 2014): http://hydro1.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/data/s4pa/GLDAS/README.GLDAS2.pdf