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Description

This data set contains daily snow cover derived from radiance data acquired by the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) on board the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (NPP) satellite. The data is a gridded composite, generated from 6 minute swaths, and projected to a 375 m Sinusoidal grid. Snow cover is identified using the Normalized Difference Snow Index (NDSI) and a series of screens designed to alleviate errors and flag uncertain snow cover detections.

Version Description

Data update as part of VIIRS/JPSS-1 Collection 2

Product Summary

Platforms
Suomi-NPP
Instruments
VIIRS
Spatial Extent

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

Spatial Resolution
375 Meters x 375 Meters
Location
GLOBAL LAND
Coordinate System
CARTESIAN
Granule Spatial Representation
GEODETIC
Temporal Extent
2012-01-19 to Present
Temporal Resolution
1 Day
Concept ID
C3173441659-NSIDC_CPRD
Data State
ACTIVE
Number of Files/Granules
1719485
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.

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Riggs, G., & Hall, D. (2023). VIIRS/NPP Snow Cover Daily L3 Global 375m SIN Grid, Version 2 [Dataset]. NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center. https://doi.org/10.5067/45VDCKJBXWEE Date Accessed: 2026-09-19

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A dataset for monitoring agricultural drought in Europe Fioravanti, Guido, Toreti, Andrea, Cammalleri, Carmelo, Munoz, Carolina Arias, Bavera, Davide, De Jager, Alfred, Hrast Essenfelder, Arthur, Di Ciollo, Chiara, Masante, Dario, Magni, Diego, Navarro, Juan Acosta, Mazzesch, Marco, Maetens, Willem Leaf Characteristics, Photosynthetically Active Radiation, Leaf Area Index (LAI), Fraction Of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation (fapar), Snow Cover
Continuity between NASA MODIS Collection 6.1 and VIIRS Collection 2 land Roman, Miguel O., Justice, Chris, Paynter, Ian, Boucher, Peter B., Devadiga, Sadashiva, Endsley, Arthur, Erb, Angela, Friedl, Mark, Gao, Huilin, Giglio, Louis, Gray, Josh M., Hall, Dorothy, Hulley, Glynn, Kimball, John, Knyazikhin, Yuri, Lyapustin, Alexei, Myneni, Ranga B., Noojipady, Praveen, Pu, Jiabin, Riggs, George, Sarkar, Sudipta, Schaaf, Crystal, Shah, Deep, Tran, Khuong H., Vermote, Eric, Wang, Dongdong, Wang, Zhuosen, Wu, Aisheng, Ye, Yongchang, Shen, Yu, Zhang, Shuai, Zhang, Shuai, Zhang, Xiaoyang, Zhao, Maosheng, Davidson, Carol, Wolfe, Robert Plant Phenology, Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI), Leaf Characteristics, Photosynthetically Active Radiation, Leaf Area Index (LAI), Fraction Of Absorbed Photosynthetically Active Radiation (fapar), Snow Cover
Effect of Cloud Mask on the Consistency of Snow Cover Products from Liu, Anwei, Che, Tao, Huang, Xiaodong, Dai, Liyun, Wang, Jing, Deng, Jie Albedo, Snow Cover
Continuity of MODIS and VIIRS snow cover extent data products for development of an Earth science data record Riggs, George, Hall, Dorothy Albedo, Snow Cover, Albedo
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