Overview of NASA's MODIS and Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) snow-cover Earth System Data Records

Riggs, George A.; Hall, Dorothy K.; Román, Miguel O.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-9-765-2017

Articles | Volume 9, issue 2

https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-9-765-2017

© Author(s) 2017. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-9-765-2017

© Author(s) 2017. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 9, issue 2

Review article

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10 Oct 2017

Review article |

| 10 Oct 2017

Overview of NASA's MODIS and Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) snow-cover Earth System Data Records

George A. Riggs, Dorothy K. Hall, and Miguel O. Román

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Final revised paper (published on 10 Oct 2017)
Preprint (discussion started on 13 Apr 2017)

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AC: Author comment | RC: Referee comment | SC: Short comment | EC: Editor comment

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RC1: 'review', Juraj Parajka, 22 Apr 2017
- AC1: 'response to RC1 review', George Riggs, 26 May 2017
RC2: 'Review', Anonymous Referee #2, 01 May 2017
RC3: 'review', Anonymous Referee #3, 09 May 2017
RC4: 'Review', Anonymous Referee #4, 10 May 2017
AC2: 'Update on the VIIRS snow cover data product', George Riggs, 30 May 2017

Short summary

The current collections of the NASA snow-cover data products generated from the MODIS and Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) satellite instruments are described. Revisions in the MODIS snow cover algorithm increased accuracy, and the data content of products is increased from previous collection. The VIIRS algorithm and data product are very similar to those of MODIS. The objective of generating similar products is to enable the creation of a snow-cover extent climate-data record.