GlobSnow Snow Water Equivalent Service (FMI National Satellite Data Centre)
Finnish Meteorological Institute portal for the ESA GlobSnow Northern Hemisphere snow water equivalent dataset combining passive-microwave satellite data with ground stations, 1979-present at 25 km, plus near-real-time SWE mapping.
nsdc.fmi.fi
At a glance
- Region
- Finland (Global)
- Coverage
- Global
- Access
- Free
- Category
- Government
- Last updated
- 2025
What's inside
- snow water equivalent
- snow cover
Terms explained
What you can do with it
Typical work that data of this type supports.
- 01
Melt runoff
Forecast snowmelt contributions to rivers.
Because it has: snow water equivalent
- 02
Glacier change
Track glacier retreat over decades.
- 03
No-gauge areas
Monitor places with no ground stations.
Where AI adds value
Ideas for machine learning and AI agents built on this kind of data.
- 01
Cloud-free snow maps
Fill snow cover hidden by cloud with ML.
- 02
Melt-season flows
Predict melt-season river flow from snow and weather.
- 03
Segmentation
Map water, crops and land use pixel by pixel with deep learning.
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