ObservationsClimate
MODIS Snow Cover (MOD10A1)
MODIS/Terra Snow Cover Daily L3 Global 500 m. Daily 500 m snow cover since 2000.
NDSI snow cover, snow albedo and quality flags for every day with a Terra overpass. The standard input for snowmelt model calibration.
- Source
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Resolution
- 500 m
- Data type
- Raster
- Time span
- 2000–present
- Temporal
- Daily
- Access type
- Download with free login · Free NASA Earthdata login
- Formats
- HDF-EOS
- Coverage
- Global land (-180, -90, 180, 90)
- Licence
- Public domain (U.S. Government work)
- DOI
- 10.5067/MODIS/MOD10A1.061
- Provider page
- nsidc.org/data/mod10a1
Cite as. Hall, D. K., Riggs, G. A. (2021). MODIS/Terra Snow Cover Daily L3 Global 500m SIN Grid, Version 61. NSIDC DAAC. https://doi.org/10.5067/MODIS/MOD10A1.061
Access
cmrMOD10A1 v61 daily tiles (latest first) from NASA Earthdata
Granules found through NASA's Common Metadata Repository (collection MOD10A1 v61). Downloads need a free Earthdata login.
# Earthdata login in ~/.netrc:
# machine urs.earthdata.nasa.gov login USER password PASS
curl -fsSL "https://hydrological.org/api/v1/datasets/modis-snow/links.txt?bbox=-75,-20,-50,5" \
| xargs -n 1 curl -fLO --netrc -b ~/.urs_cookies -c ~/.urs_cookiesimport earthaccess # pip install earthaccess
earthaccess.login()
results = earthaccess.search_data(short_name="MOD10A1", version="61",
bounding_box=(-75, -20, -50, 5))
earthaccess.download(results, "data")const res = await fetch("https://hydrological.org/api/v1/datasets/modis-snow/links?bbox=-75,-20,-50,5");
const { groups } = await res.json();
for (const g of groups) g.links.forEach(l => console.log(l.url));Also available as JSON: links · manifest · dataset record
