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This global Level-3 (L3) data set provides a daily composite of snow cover and albedo derived from the 'MODIS/Terra Snow Cover 5-Min L2 Swath 500m' data set (DOI:10.5067/MODIS/MOD10_L2.061). Each data granule is a 10°x10° tile projected to a 500 m sinusoidal grid.

The terms "Version 61" and "Collection 6.1" are used interchangeably in reference to this release of MODIS data.

Version Description

1. The low visible reflectance screen for snow cover using bands 2 and 4 was lowered from 0.10 to 0.07. 2. Cloud mask algorithm flags are set for 'probably cloudy' and 'probably clear' sky conditions in the algorithm flags QA data set.

Product Summary

Platforms
Terra
Instruments
MODIS
Spatial Extent

N: 90 S: -90 E: 180 W: -180

Spatial Resolution
500 Meters x 500 Meters
Location
GLOBAL
Coordinate System
CARTESIAN
Granule Spatial Representation
GEODETIC
Temporal Extent
2000-02-24 to Present
Temporal Resolution
1 Day
Concept ID
C2565093311-NSIDC_CPRD
Data State
ACTIVE
Number of Files/Granules
2925109
Processing Level
3
Published
Science Keywords
Albedo ,
Snow Cover

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Citation is critically important for dataset documentation and discovery. This dataset is openly shared, without restriction, in accordance with the EOSDIS Data Use and Citation Guidance.

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Hall, D. K., & Riggs, G. A. (2021). MODIS/Terra Snow Cover Daily L3 Global 500m SIN Grid, Version 61 [Dataset]. NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center. https://doi.org/10.5067/MODIS/MOD10A1.061 Date Accessed: 2026-09-15

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Assessment of Drought Impacts on Remotely Sensed Seasonal Snow Depletion Patterning: A Case Study Over the Boise River Basin, Idaho Woodruff, Craig D., Qualls, Russell J., Clark, Patrick E. Terrain Elevation, Digital Elevation/Terrain Model (DEM), Topographical Relief Maps, Albedo, Snow Cover
Runoff from Greenland's firn areawhy do MODIS, RCMs and a firn model disagree? Machguth, Horst, Tedstone, Andrew, Kuipers Munneke, Peter, Brils, Max, Noel, Brice, Clerx, Nicole, Jullien, Nicolas, Fettweis, Xavier, van den Broeke, Michiel Ice Velocity, Reflectance, Albedo, Snow Cover
Spatiotemporal mapping of invasive yellow sweetclover blooms using Sentinel-2 and high-resolution drone imagery Saraf, Sakshi, John, Ranjeet, Kolluru, Venkatesh, Jain, Khushboo, Henebry, Geoffrey M., Chen, Jiquan, Lafortezza, Raffaele Precipitation Amount, Maximum/Minimum Temperature, Shortwave Radiation, Snow Water Equivalent, Vapor Pressure, Albedo, Snow Cover
Assessing groundwater storage response to snow cover dynamics in large Moroccan river basins over the last decades using remote sensing data Bousbaa, Mostafa, Boudhar, Abdelghani, Hssaisoune, Mohammed, Elyoussfi, Haytam, Karaoui, Ismail, Bargam, Bouchra, Nifa, Karima, Hadri, Abdessamad, Acharki, Siham, Vivone, Gemine, Kinnard, Christophe Albedo, Snow Cover
Systematic evaluation of atmospheric forcing, surface datasets, and mesh Li, Lingcheng, Bisht, Gautam, Xu, Donghui, Hao, Dalei, Liao, Chang, Feng, Dongyu, Tan, Zeli, Li, Hongyi, Shi, Mingjie, Zhou, Tian, Leung, L. Ruby Evapotranspiration, Photosynthesis, Primary Production, Latent Heat Flux, Vegetation Productivity, Albedo, Anisotropy, Albedo, Snow Cover
A remote sensing approach for measuring climatic change effects on snow cover dynamics Parizia, Francesco, De Petris, Samuele, Perotti, Luigi, Giardino, Marco, Borgogno-Mondino, Enrico Albedo, Snow Cover
Enhancing Snow Cover Monitoring: A Modified Cloud Removal Methodology for MODIS Data in the Tapovan Vishnugad Basin Vijayalekshmi, Gopika, Goel, N. K., Arora, Manohar Albedo, Snow Cover
PIXAL: a physics-inspired explainable machine learning architecture for Greenland ice albedo modeling Antwerpen, Raf, Tedesco, Marco, Gentine, Pierre, van de Berg, Willem Jan, Fettweis, Xavier Reflectance, Albedo, Snow Cover
Informing Snow Measurement Site Selection with Remote Sensing and Local Ecological Knowledge: A Case Study in Oregon Steele, Hannah, Emard, Kelsey, Raleigh, Mark S. Albedo, Snow Cover
Benchmarking and evaluating the NASA Land Information System (version He, Cenlin, Lin, Tzu-Shun, Mocko, David M., Abolafia-Rosenzweig, Ronnie, Wegiel, Jerry W., Kumar, Sujay V. Albedo, Anisotropy, Brightness Temperature, Surface Soil Moisture, Albedo, Snow Cover
Anthropogenic and climatic drivers of the 2022 mega-flood in Pakistan Arshad, Arfan, Mirchi, Ali, He, Cenlin, Shah, Azeem Ali, AghaKouchak, Amir Land Use/Land Cover Classification, Albedo, Snow Cover
Permafrost distribution modeling using remote sensing and machine learning technique in the Garhwal Himalaya, India Pandey, Arvind Chandra, Islam, Anikul, Dwivedi, Chandra Shekhar, Parida, Bikash Ranjan, Maslakov, Alexey, Koroleva, Ekaterina Terrain Elevation, Digital Elevation/Terrain Model (DEM), Topographical Relief Maps, Land Surface Temperature, Emissivity, Albedo, Snow Cover
The Simulated Role of the Antecedent Snow and Soil Moisture Conditions on the 1316 March 2021 Dust Storm in East Asia Letcher, Theodore, LeGrand, Sandra, Sparrow, Kent, Eylander, John Reflectance, Albedo, Anisotropy, Surface Soil Moisture, Albedo, Snow Cover
Enhancing SWAT's snow module for multivariate Elevation-dependent snow Bayat, Mehrad, Mojaradi, Barat, Alizadeh, Hosein Albedo, Snow Cover, Albedo
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Spatially explicit modeling of road icing susceptibility using GIS and a multi-criteria decision approach: A case study of Gumushane city (Turkiye) Isk, Fatih, Kanylmaz, Rabia, Caglak, Savas, Eraslan, Selim, Zeybek, Halil Ibrahim Albedo, Snow Cover
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