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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
GPM GROUND VALIDATION ENVIRONMENT CANADA (EC) PASSIVE MICROWAVE RADIOMETER AND SOIL MOISTURE-TEMPERATURE DATA GCPEX 1 GROUND STATIONS RADIOMETERS, SOIL MOISTURE PROBE, THERMISTORS, WCR 2011-12-05 to 2012-03-03

N: 44.2432 S: 44.2232 E: -79.7706 W: -79.7906

Excel
GPM GROUND VALIDATION ENVIRONMENT CANADA (EC) SNOW SURVEYS GCPEX V1 1 FIELD SURVEYS MAGNAPROBE, SNOW TUBE 2012-01-05 to 2012-02-27

N: 44.68 S: 44.18 E: -79.64 W: -79.92

Excel
GPM GROUND VALIDATION GCPEX SNOW MICROPHYSICS CASE STUDY V1 1 NASA DC-8, GROUND STATIONS, UND CITATION II APR-2, CIPS, D3R, DPR, HVPS, PMS 2D-C PROBE 2012-02-24 to 2012-02-25

N: 46.3966 S: 43.4595 E: -78.7616 W: -80.4026

netCDF-4
GPM Ground Validation Iowa Flood Center (IFC) Stream Flow IFloodS V1 1 GROUND STATIONS STREAM GAUGES 2013-03-31 to 2013-06-30

N: 43.3423 S: 40.7275 E: -90.4685 W: -95.7045

XML
GPM Ground Validation USGS Stream Flow IFloodS V1 1 GROUND STATIONS STREAM GAUGES 2008-07-24 to 2013-07-01

N: 43.4697 S: 40.6017 E: -90.1904 W: -96.5619

XML
GPM GROUND VALIDATION WYOMING KING AIR CLOUD MICROPHYSICS LPVEX V1 1 UWKA CDP, FSSP, GPS, LICOR GAS EXCHANGE SYSTEM, NEVZOROV PROBE, PMS 2D-C PROBE, PMS 2D-P PROBE, ROSEMOUNT PROBES 2010-09-11 to 2010-10-20

N: 61.5401 S: 59.6884 E: 26.5131 W: 19.8372

netCDF-3
Gridded Population of the World, Version 3 (GPWv3): Land and Geographic Unit Area Grids 3.0 MODELS Computer 1990-07-01, 1995-07-01, 2000-07-01, 2005-07-01, 2010-07-01, 2015-07-01

N: 79.89196 S: -54.751503 E: 179.848323 W: -179.199552

ASCII, BIL, Grid, WMS
Gridded Population of the World, Version 4 (GPWv4): Land and Water Area 4.0 MODELS Computer 2010-07-01

N: 85 S: -60 E: 180 W: -180

GeoTIFF
Gridded Population of the World, Version 4 (GPWv4): Land and Water Area, Revision 10 4.10 MODELS Computer 2010-07-01

N: 85 S: -60 E: 180 W: -180

ASCII, GeoTIFF
Gridded Population of the World, Version 4 (GPWv4): Land and Water Area, Revision 11 4.11 MODELS Computer 2010-07-01

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

0.008333 Decimal Degrees x 0.008333 Decimal Degrees ASCII, GeoTIFF, PDF, PNG, WMS
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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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