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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
Snowmelt Timing Maps Derived from MODIS for North America, Version 2, 2001-2018 Terra MODIS 2001-01-01 to 2018-12-31 UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, CANADA N: 90 S: 10 W: -180 GeoTIFF
Stream Flow Daily Data: USGS (FIFE) SURFACE WATER WEIR STILLING WELL 1979-04-01 to 1988-09-02 N: 40 S: 39 E: -95 W: -97 multiple
Stream Flow Storm Data (FIFE) SURFACE WATER WEIR STILLING WELL 1987-01-01 to 1988-01-01 N: 39.09 S: 39.07 E: -96.56 W: -96.58 CSV
Surface Water Elevation and Quality, Peace-Athabasca Delta, Canada, 2006-2007 FIELD INVESTIGATION, LABORATORY PRESSURE TRANSDUCERS, DRIFTING BUOYS, ANEMOMETERS, STEEL MEASURING TAPE, CONDUCTIVITY METERS, TURBIDITY METERS, BALANCE 2006-06-03 to 2007-09-10 N: 58.6454 S: 58.3534 E: -111.106 W: -111.708 CSV
SWOT Level 2 Lake Cycle-Averaged Data Product, Version C SWOT KaRIn, Jason-class Altimeter, AMR, DORIS, GPSP, LRA 2022-12-16 GLOBAL N: 90 S: -90 E: 180 W: -180 Shapefile
SWOT Level 2 Lake Cycle-Averaged Data Product, Version D SWOT KaRIn, Jason-class Altimeter, AMR, DORIS, GPSP, LRA 2022-12-16 GLOBAL N: 90 S: -90 E: 180 W: -180 Shapefile
SWOT Level 2 Lake Single-Pass Vector Data Product, Version C SWOT KaRIn, Jason-class Altimeter, AMR, DORIS, GPSP, LRA 2022-12-16 GLOBAL N: 90 S: -90 E: 180 W: -180 Shapefile
SWOT Level 2 Lake Single-Pass Vector Data Product, Version D SWOT KaRIn, Jason-class Altimeter, AMR, DORIS, GPSP, LRA 2022-12-16 GLOBAL N: 90 S: -90 E: 180 W: -180 Shapefile
SWOT Level 2 Lake Single-Pass Vector Obs Data Product, Version C SWOT KaRIn, Jason-class Altimeter, AMR, DORIS, GPSP, LRA 2022-12-16 GLOBAL N: 90 S: -90 E: 180 W: -180 Shapefile
SWOT Level 2 Lake Single-Pass Vector Obs Data Product, Version D SWOT KaRIn, Jason-class Altimeter, AMR, DORIS, GPSP, LRA 2022-12-16 GLOBAL N: 90 S: -90 E: 180 W: -180 Shapefile
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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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