MODIS/Terra Snow Cover 5-Min L2 Swath 500m, Version 5 (MOD10_L2)R. Duerr

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MOD10_L2 Characteristics• HDF-EOS format• 2 main parameter

arrays• snow• fractional snow

• New granule acquired every 5 minutes

• Every data file is accompanied by a metadata file

MOD10_L2 Metadata

MOD10_L2 Metadata

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MOD10_L2 Characteristics• HDF-EOS format• 2 main parameter

arrays• snow• fractional snow

• New granule acquired every 5 minutes

• Every data file is accompanied by a metadata file

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Access methods

• Data pool (FTP)• Reverb (central metadata)

• FTP access• Subsetting available

• OpenDAP coming soon?

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Questions?

7 Data Publication at NSIDC