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Reconstructed North American, Eurasian, and Northern Hemisphere Snow Cover Extent, 1915-1997, Version 1

Metadata Updated: June 20, 2025

This data set contains time series of monthly snow cover extent (SCE) for North America, Eurasia, and the Northern Hemisphere from 1915 to 1997, based on snow cover reconstruction and NOAA satellite data. In addition, the data set contains time series of annual variation in areally-averaged monthly snow depth and (SWE) for the North American grid ___domain used to derive the snow cover index.

Access & Use Information

Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: No license information was provided. If this work was prepared by an officer or employee of the United States government as part of that person's official duties it is considered a U.S. Government Work.

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Dates

Metadata Created Date April 11, 2025
Metadata Updated Date June 20, 2025

Metadata Source

Harvested from NASA Data.json

Additional Metadata

Resource Type Dataset
Metadata Created Date April 11, 2025
Metadata Updated Date June 20, 2025
Publisher NSIDC
Maintainer
Identifier 10.7265/N5V985Z6
Data Last Modified 2025-06-18
Category Earth Science
Public Access Level public
Bureau Code 026:00
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Program Code 026:000
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Source Hash 62f6290097fcc81b99e505760977c6a40124a8082b23e21aae883ef48d0a560a
Source Schema Version 1.1
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