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Snow Water Equivalent (SWE) Dataset
Posted: Fri Apr 04, 2025 3:15 am America/New_York
by shaniabbas
I am working on Snow Drought Classification over Tarim River Basin. I need Snow Water Equivalent (SWE) data from GLDAS_NOAH_V2. Anyone please guide me which (variable) from which data source should I use.
Re: Snow Water Equivalent (SWE) Dataset
Posted: Fri Apr 04, 2025 9:08 am America/New_York
by GES DISC - jschaperow
Hi Shani,
You can use the variable SWE_inst ("snow depth water equivalent") from GLDAS NOAH 2.0.
You can see a list of GLDAS outputs in the README file for the GLDAS data products, which can be found on each of our GLDAS data collection landing pages at GES DISC, e.g. here:
https://disc.gsfc.nasa.gov/datasets/GLDAS_NOAH025_3H_2.0/summary?keywords=gldas%20noah
Note that "snow depth water equivalent" means the same thing as "snow water equivalent" and should not be confused with "snow depth".
Hope this helps,
Jacob