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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

Dataset Platforms Instruments Temporal Extent Location Keywords Spatial Extent Data Format
MODIS/Terra Water Reservoir Monthly L3 Global V061 Terra MODIS 2000-03-01 to Present GLOBAL N: 90 S: -90 E: 180 W: -180 HDF4
Monthly Climate Data for Selected USGS HCDN Sites, 1951-1990, R1 STREAMFLOW STATION STREAM GAUGES 1951-01-01 to 1990-12-31 N: 49.39 S: 24.16 E: -66.74 W: -125.15 Shapefile
Monthly gridded Global Land Data Assimilation System (GLDAS) from Noah-v3.3 land hydrology model for GRACE and GRACE-FO over nominal months Noah-LSM 2002-04-04 GLOBAL N: 89.5 S: -89.5 E: 180 W: -180 netCDF-4
NACP MsTMIP: Global 0.5-degree Model Outputs in Standard Format, Version 1.0 MODELS Computer 1900-01-01 to 2010-12-31 N: 90 S: -90 E: 180 W: -180 netCDF-4 classic
NASA Energy and Water cycle Study (NEWS) Annual Climatology of the 1st decade of the 21st Century V1.0 (NEWS_WEB_ACLIM) at GES DISC OBSERVATION BASED NOT APPLICABLE 1998-01-01 to 2010-12-31 GLOBAL N: 90 S: -90 E: 180 W: -180
NASA Energy and Water cycle Study (NEWS) Monthly Climatology of the 1st decade of the 21st Century V1.0 (NEWS_WEB_MCLIM) at GES DISC OBSERVATION BASED NOT APPLICABLE 1998-01-01 to 2010-12-31 GLOBAL N: 90 S: -90 E: 180 W: -180
NCA-LDAS Noah-3.3 Land Surface Model L4 Daily 0.125 x 0.125 degree V2.0 (NCALDAS_NOAH0125_D) at GES DISC Noah-LSM NOT APPLICABLE 1979-01-02 to 2016-12-31 NORTH AMERICA N: 53 S: 25 E: -67 W: -125
NCA-LDAS Noah-3.3 Land Surface Model L4 Trends 0.125 x 0.125 degree V2.0 (NCALDAS_NOAH0125_Trends) at GES DISC Noah-LSM NOT APPLICABLE 1979-10-01 to 2015-09-30 NORTH AMERICA N: 53 S: 25 E: -67 W: -125
NLDAS Mosaic Land Surface Model L4 Hourly 0.125 x 0.125 degree V2.0 (NLDAS_MOS0125_H) at GES DISC Mosaic-LSM NOT APPLICABLE 1979-01-02 to Present NORTH AMERICA N: 53 S: 25 E: -67 W: -125
NLDAS Mosaic Land Surface Model L4 Monthly 0.125 x 0.125 degree V2.0 (NLDAS_MOS0125_M) at GES DISC Mosaic-LSM NOT APPLICABLE 1979-01-01 to Present NORTH AMERICA N: 53 S: 25 E: -67 W: -125
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Terrestrial Hydrosphere Data Tools

Tool Sort descending 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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