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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 Data Format
GPM GROUND VALIDATION GCPEX SNOW MICROPHYSICS CASE STUDY V1 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 ONTARIO netCDF-4
GPM Ground Validation Iowa Flood Center (IFC) Stream Flow IFloodS V1 GROUND STATIONS STREAM GAUGES 2013-03-31 to 2013-06-30 IOWA XML
GPM Ground Validation USGS Stream Flow IFloodS V1 GROUND STATIONS STREAM GAUGES 2008-07-24 to 2013-07-01 IOWA XML
GPM GROUND VALIDATION WYOMING KING AIR CLOUD MICROPHYSICS LPVEX V1 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 FINLAND netCDF-3
Gridded Population of the World, Version 3 (GPWv3): Land and Geographic Unit Area Grids MODELS Computer 1990-07-01, 1995-07-01, 2000-07-01, 2005-07-01, 2010-07-01, 2015-07-01 AFRICA, ASIA, AUSTRALIA, EUROPE, GLOBAL ASCII, BIL, Grid, WMS
Gridded Population of the World, Version 4 (GPWv4): Land and Water Area MODELS Computer 2010-07-01 GLOBAL GeoTIFF
Gridded Population of the World, Version 4 (GPWv4): Land and Water Area, Revision 10 MODELS Computer 2010-07-01 GLOBAL ASCII, GeoTIFF
Gridded Population of the World, Version 4 (GPWv4): Land and Water Area, Revision 11 MODELS Computer 2010-07-01 GLOBAL ASCII, GeoTIFF, PDF, PNG, WMS
High Mountain Asia 30m and 8m Flood Geomorphic Potential V001 MODELS NOT APPLICABLE 2017-07-16 to 2017-07-16, 2021-04-22 to 2021-04-22 AFGHANISTAN, PAKISTAN, TAJIKISTAN, KYRGYZSTAN, NEPAL GeoTIFF, Shapefile
High Mountain Asia 5 Arc-Minute Hydrological Flow Direction for the Headwaters of the Amu Darya and Indus River Basins V001 MODELS NOT APPLICABLE 2023-03-23 to 2023-03-23 AFGHANISTAN, TAJIKISTAN, KYRGYZSTAN, PAKISTAN GeoTIFF, ASCII Grid
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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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