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GlobSnow Snow Water Equivalent (SWE) v2
ESA Climate Change Initiative product providing Northern Hemisphere terrestrial snow water equivalent from satellite passive microwave radiometers combined with ground observations via Bayesian data assimilation
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At a glance
- Region
- Northern Hemisphere
- Coverage
- Northern Hemisphere non-mountainous land, 1979-2018
- Access
- Free
- Category
- Space Agency
What's inside
- Snow Water Equivalent
- Daily SWE Maps
- Monthly Composites
- Passive Microwave Data
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
Risk screening
Screen projects and assets for climate risk.
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
Bias correction
Correct and downscale climate model output for a site.
Related water data
- GlobSnow v3.0: Northern Hemisphere snow water equivalent datasetNorthern Hemisphere | Free
- NH-SWE: Northern Hemisphere Snow Water Equivalent from in situ snow depth time seriesNorthern Hemisphere | Free
- NOAA IMS Snow and Ice AnalysisNorthern Hemisphere | Free
- NorSWE: Northern Hemisphere in situ snow water equivalent dataset (1979-2021)Northern Hemisphere | Free
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