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Description

This data set reports the percentage of snow-covered land in 0.05° (approx. 5 km) resolution Climate Modeling Grid (CMG) cells. Percentages are computed from snow cover observations in the MODIS/Terra Snow Cover Daily L3 Global 500m Grid (MOD10A1) data set. Cloud cover percentages are also provided.

As of August 2023, this data set is retired and no longer available for download. We recommend using <a href="https://nsidc.org/data/mod10c1/versions/61">MODIS/Terra Snow Cover Daily L3 Global 0.05Deg CMG, Version 61</a> as an alternative.

Version Description

Changes for Version 6 include:
  • Fractional Snow Cover (FSC) previously used as input to this data set has been replaced by Normalized Difference Snow Index (NDSI) snow cover;
  • The Day_CMG_Confidence_Index variable has been replaced with Day_CMG_Clear_Index.

Product Summary

Platforms
Terra
Instruments
MODIS
Spatial Extent

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

Spatial Resolution
0.05 Decimal Degrees x 0.05 Decimal Degrees
Location
GLOBAL LAND
Coordinate System
CARTESIAN
Granule Spatial Representation
CARTESIAN
Temporal Extent
2000-02-24 to 2023-02-17
Temporal Resolution
1 Day
Concept ID
C3044686345-NSIDC_CPRD
Data State
DEPRECATED
Number of Files/Granules
0
Processing Level
3
Published
Science Keywords
Snow Cover

Citation

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.

Copy Citation

Hall, D. K., & Riggs, G. A. (2015). MODIS/Terra Snow Cover Daily L3 Global 0.05Deg CMG, Version 6 [Dataset]. NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center. https://doi.org/10.5067/MODIS/MOD10C1.006 Date Accessed: 2026-08-02

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Evaluation of the Snow Climate Change Initiative (Snow CCI) snow-covered area product within a mountain snow water equivalent reanalysis Sun, Haorui, Fang, Yiwen, Margulis, Steven A., Mortimer, Colleen, Mudryk, Lawrence, Derksen, Chris Snow Depth, Snow Water Equivalent, Snow Cover
Global Wind Erosion Reduction Driven by Changing Climate and Land Use Sun, Ranhao, He, Hongbin, Jing, Yongcai, Leng, Song, Yang, Guocheng, Lu, Yihe, Borrelli, Pasquale, Chen, Liding, Fu, Bojie Land Use/Land Cover Classification, Vegetation Index, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI), Vegetation Index, Snow Cover
Reducing the Cold Bias of the WRF Model Over the Tibetan Plateau by Implementing a Snow CoverageTopography Relationship and a Fresh Snow Albedo Scheme Zhou, Xu, Ding, Baohong, Yang, Kun, Pan, Jinmei, Ma, Xiaogang, Zhao, Long, Li, Xin, Shi, Jiancheng Snow Cover, Albedo, Anisotropy, Emissivity, Land Surface Temperature
Parameter estimation at the conterminous United States scale and streamflow routing enhancements for the National Hydrologic Model infrastructure ... Hay, Lauren E., LaFontaine, Jacob H., Van Beusekom, Ashley E., Norton, Parker A., Farmer, William H., Regan, R. Steve, Markstrom, Steven L., Dickinson, Jesse E. Snow Cover
Development of a fine-resolution snow depth product based on the snow cover probability for the Tibetan Plateau: Validation and spatialtemporal analyses Yan, Dajiang, Ma, Ning, Zhang, Yinsheng Snow Cover
A hydrological simulation dataset of the Upper Colorado River Basin from 1983 to 2019 Tran, Hoang, Zhang, Jun, ONeill, Mary Michael, Ryken, Anna, Condon, Laura E., Maxwell, Reed M. Snow Cover
Landatmosphere interactions in sub-polar and alpine climates in the CORDEX flagship pilot study Land Use and Climate Across Scales (LUCAS) models ... Daloz, Anne Sophie, Schwingshackl, Clemens, Mooney, Priscilla, Strada, Susanna, Rechid, Diana, Davin, Edouard L., Katragkou, Eleni, de Noblet-Ducoudre, Nathalie, Belda, Michal, Halenka, Tomas, Breil, Marcus, Cardoso, Rita M., Hoffmann, Peter, Lima, Daniela C. A., Meier, Ronny, Soares, Pedro M. M., Sofiadis, Giannis, Strandberg, Gustav, Toelle, Merja H., Lund, Marianne T. Snow Cover
Vegetation type is an important predictor of the arctic summer land surface energy budget Oehri, Jacqueline, Schaepman-Strub, Gabriela, Kim, Jin-Soo, Grysko, Raleigh, Kropp, Heather, Grunberg, Inge, Zemlianskii, Vitalii, Sonnentag, Oliver, Euskirchen, Eugenie S., Reji Chacko, Merin, Muscari, Giovanni, Blanken, Peter D., Dean, Joshua F., di Sarra, Alcide, Harding, Richard J., Sobota, Ireneusz, Kutzbach, Lars, Plekhanova, Elena, Riihela, Aku, Boike, Julia, Miller, Nathaniel B., Beringer, Jason, Lopez-Blanco, Efren, Stoy, Paul C., Sullivan, Ryan C., Kejna, Marek, Parmentier, Frans-Jan W., Gamon, John A., Mastepanov, Mikhail, Wille, Christian, Jackowicz-Korczynski, Marcin, Karger, Dirk N., Quinton, William L., Putkonen, Jaakko, van As, Dirk, Christensen, Torben R., Hakuba, Maria Z., Stone, Robert S., Metzger, Stefan, Vandecrux, Baptiste, Frost, Gerald V., Wild, Martin, Hansen, Birger, Meloni, Daniela, Domine, Florent, te Beest, Mariska, Sachs, Torsten, Kalhori, Aram, Rocha, Adrian V., Williamson, Scott N., Morris, Sara, Atchley, Adam L., Essery, Richard, Runkle, Benjamin R. K., Holl, David, Riihimaki, Laura D., Iwata, Hiroki, Schuur, Edward A. G., Cox, Christopher J., Grachev, Andrey A., McFadden, Joseph P., Fausto, Robert S., Gockede, Mathias, Ueyama, Masahito, Pirk, Norbert, de Boer, Gijs, Bret-Harte, M. Syndonia, Lepparanta, Matti, Steffen, Konrad, Friborg, Thomas, Ohmura, Atsumu, Edgar, Colin W., Olofsson, Johan, Chambers, Scott D. Snow Cover
Is New Always Better? Frontiers in Global Climate Datasets for Modeling Bobrowski, Maria, Weidinger, Johannes, Schickhoff, Udo Terrain Elevation, Digital Elevation/Terrain Model (DEM), Topographical Relief Maps, Snow Cover
Pack size in humanized landscapes: the Iberian wolf population Fernandez-Gil, Alberto, Quevedo, Mario, Barrientos, Luis M., Nuno, Angel, Naves, Javier, de Gabriel, Miguel, Ordiz, Andres, Revilla, Eloy Albedo, Snow Cover
Validation of GOES-based surface insolation retrievals and its utility for model evaluation Cheng, Peiyang, Pour-Biazar, Arastoo, McNider, Richard T., Mecikalski, John R. Snow Cover
Different Sources of 10-to 30-day Intraseasonal Variations of Autumn Song, Lei, Wu, Renguang, An, Lu Albedo, Snow Cover
Can Convection-Permitting Modeling Provide Decent Precipitation for He, Cenlin, Chen, Fei, Barlage, Michael, Liu, Changhai, Newman, Andrew, Tang, Wenfu, Ikeda, Kyoko, Rasmussen, Roy Albedo, Anisotropy, Albedo, Snow Cover
Intraseasonal Snow Cover Variations Over Western Siberia and Associated Atmospheric Processes Song, Lei, Wu, Renguang Snow Cover
Processes of intraseasonal snow cover variations over the eastern China during boreal winter Song, Lei, Wu, Renguang, Zhu, Jialei Snow Cover
Quantifying the Clear-Sky Bias of Satellite Land Surface Temperature Ermida, Sofia L., Trigo, Isabel F., DaCamara, Carlos C., Jimenez, Carlos, Prigent, Catherine Snow Cover
Using R in hydrology: a review of recent developments and future directions Slater, Louise J., Thirel, Guillaume, Harrigan, Shaun, Delaigue, Olivier, Hurley, Alexander, Khouakhi, Abdou, Prosdocimi, Ilaria, Vitolo, Claudia, Smith, Katie Snow Cover
Overview of NASA's MODIS and visible infrared imaging radiometer suite (VIIRS) snow-cover earth system data records Riggs, George A., Hall, Dorothy K., Roman, Miguel O. Snow Cover, Snow Cover, Albedo, Albedo
The modelled liquid water balance of the Greenland Ice Sheet Steger, Christian R., Reijmer, Carleen H., van den Broeke, Michiel R. Albedo, Snow Cover
Spatiotemporal patterns of High Mountain Asia's snowmelt season Smith, Taylor, Bookhagen, Bodo, Rheinwalt, Aljoscha Albedo, Snow Cover
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