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Terrestrial Hydrosphere Data Access and Tools

NASA data examine many characteristics of the liquid and frozen water and the dynamic processes they are part of across Earth’s landscape. Our datasets and tools help researchers translate these interconnected data points into actionable knowledge.

Terrestrial Hydrosphere Datasets

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Dataset Version Platforms Instruments Temporal Extent Spatial Extent Spatial Resolution Data Format
ABoVE: Last Day of Spring Snow, Alaska, USA, and Yukon Territory, Canada, 2000-2016 1 Terra MODIS 2000-04-01 to 2016-07-02

N: 68.9658 S: 52.1694 E: -97.9489 W: -175.762

GeoTIFF
ABoVE: Methane Ebullition Hotspots in Frozen Lakes near Fairbanks, Alaska, Oct 2014 1 FIELD SURVEYS, Airplane GPS, CAMERAS 2014-10-08 to 2014-10-08

N: 64.9368 S: 64.863 E: -147.769 W: -147.939

Shapefile
ABoVE: Methane Flux across Two Thermokarst Lake Ecosystems, Interior Alaska, 2018 1 FIELD SURVEYS GAS SENSORS, CO2 ANALYZERS, GPS, SPECTROMETERS 2018-07-17 to 2018-07-29

N: 64.9207 S: 64.9151 E: -147.819 W: -147.85

CSV
ABoVE: Monthly Hydrological Fluxes for Canada and Alaska, 1979-2018 1 MODELS Computer 1979-01-01 to 2018-04-01

N: 83.125 S: 41.7508 E: -53.4255 W: -172.25

multiple
ABoVE: Passive Microwave-derived Annual Snow Melt Duration Date Maps, 1988-2018 1.1 Nimbus-7, DMSP 5D-2/F10, Aqua, DMSP SMMR, SSMIS, AMSR-E, SSM 1988-02-09 to 2018-07-20

N: 72.41 S: 51.6 E: -107.833 W: -180

multiple
ABoVE: Passive Microwave-derived Annual Snowpack Main Melt Onset Date Maps, 1988-2023 1.0 DMSP 5D-2/F10, Aqua, Nimbus, DMSP SSMIS, AMSR-E, SMMR, SSM 1988-02-09 to 2023-07-20

N: 72.4085 S: 51.6089 E: -107.83 W: -180

multiple
ABoVE: Rain-on-Snow Frequency and Distribution during Cold Seasons, Alaska, 1988-2023 2 Aqua, GCOM-W1, DMSP AMSR-E, AMSR2, SSMIS 1988-11-01 to 2023-03-31

N: 73.8339 S: 48.6232 E: -124.326 W: -175.397

COG
ABoVE: River Ice Breakup and Freeze-up Stages, Yukon River Basin, Alaska, 1972-2016 1 LANDSAT, LANDSAT-7, LANDSAT-8 MSS, TM, ETM+, OLI 1972-11-04 to 2016-11-30

N: 66.3594 S: 62.9036 E: -142.986 W: -160.065

CSV
ABoVE: SAR-based Methane Ebullition Flux from Lakes, Five Regions, Alaska, 2007-2010 1 ALOS PALSAR 2007-11-13 to 2010-11-11

N: 71.3543 S: 64.444 E: -147.365 W: -165.169

Shapefile
ABoVE: Seasonal Dissolved Gases and Isotopes in Arctic Alaska Rivers 1 FIELD SURVEYS, LABORATORY SURVEYING TOOLS, MASS SPECTROMETERS, IRMS 2022-06-05 to 2022-09-04

N: 70.3337 S: 68.4519 E: -148.3 W: -149.4

CSV
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Terrestrial Hydrosphere Data Tools

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Tool Description Services
VEDA NASA's Visualization, Exploration, and Data Analysis (VEDA) project is an open-source science cyberinfrastructure for data processing, visualization, exploration, and geographic information systems (GIS) capabilities. Access, Analysis, Processing, Visualization, Geoprocessing
WISP The Water Information from Space (WISP) is an interactive dashboard for displaying satellite hydrology data. Monitoring Natural Events, Visualization
Worldview Worldview offers the capability to interactively browse over 1,200 global, full-resolution satellite imagery layers and download the underlying data. Analysis, Search and Discovery, Visualization, Access, Comparison, Monitoring Natural Events
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