An improved Terra–Aqua MODIS snow cover and Randolph Glacier Inventory 6.0 combined product (MOYDGL06*) for high-mountain Asia between 2002 and 2018

Muhammad, Sher; Thapa, Amrit

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-12-345-2020

Articles | Volume 12, issue 1

https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-12-345-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-12-345-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 12, issue 1

Data description paper

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13 Feb 2020

Data description paper |

| 13 Feb 2020

An improved Terra–Aqua MODIS snow cover and Randolph Glacier Inventory 6.0 combined product (MOYDGL06*) for high-mountain Asia between 2002 and 2018

Sher Muhammad and Amrit Thapa

Data sets

Improved MODIS TERRA/AQUA composite Snow and glacier (RGI6.0) data for High Mountain Asia (2002-2018) S. Muhammad and A. Thapa https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.901821

Executable research compendium (ERC)

Filtering MOD10A2 and MYD10A2 collection 6 products to generate MOYDGL06* product [Muhammad and Thapa, 2019, https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.901821] Amrit Thapa https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3610735

Short summary

Snow is the major water resource in high-mountain Asia; therefore, it is crucial to continuously monitor it. Currently, remote sensing, mainly MODIS, is used for snow monitoring. However, the available MODIS snow product is not useful for various applications without postprocessing and improvement. This study reduces uncertainty in the MODIS snow data. We found approximately 50% underestimation and overestimation of snow cover by MODIS Terra–Aqua products, which were improved in this study.