Snow Data Assimilation System (SNODAS) Data Products at NSIDC, Version 1

Dataset Identification:

Resource Abstract:
This data set contains snow pack properties, such as depth and snow water equivalent (SWE), from the NOAA National Weather Service's National Operational Hydrologic Remote Sensing Center (NOHRSC) SNOw Data Assimilation System (SNODAS). SNODAS is a modeling and data assimilation system developed by NOHRSC to provide the best possible estimates of snow cover and associated parameters to support hydrologic modeling and analysis.
Citation
Title Snow Data Assimilation System (SNODAS) Data Products at NSIDC, Version 1
publication  Date   2004-03-29
Edition 1
edition Date 2004-03-29
cited responsible party - principalInvestigator
organisation Name  National Operational Hydrologic Remote Sensing Center
Contact information
Telephone
Voice 952 361 6610
Address
1735 Lake Drive W., Chanhassen, MN, 55317 Country 
electronic Mail Address kelley.eicher@noaa.gov
Linkage for online resource
name 
URL: http://nsidc.org
Description 
cited responsible party - publisher
organisation Name  National Snow and Ice Data Center
Contact information
Address
, Boulder, Colorado,  Country USA
Linkage for online resource
name 
URL: http://nsidc.org
Description 
Topic Category:  climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere
Keywords:
Location keywords:
Continent > North America > United States Of America
Continent > North America > Canada
thesaurus name >
Title NASA / GCMD Location Keywords
revision  Date   2008-02-05
Theme keywords (theme):
EARTH SCIENCE > Atmosphere > Precipitation > Rain > Liquid Precipitation
EARTH SCIENCE > Cryosphere > Snow/Ice > Snow Depth
EARTH SCIENCE > Oceans > Sea Ice > Snow Melt > Snow Melt Runoff at the Base of the Snow Pack
EARTH SCIENCE > Cryosphere > Snow/Ice > Snow/Ice Temperature > Snow Pack Average Temperature
EARTH SCIENCE > Cryosphere > Snow/Ice > Snow Water Equivalent
EARTH SCIENCE > Terrestrial Hydrosphere > Snow/Ice > Snow Water Equivalent
EARTH SCIENCE > Atmosphere > Precipitation > Solid Precipitation
EARTH SCIENCE > Atmosphere > Atmospheric Water Vapor > Sublimation > Sublimation from the Snow Pack
EARTH SCIENCE > Atmosphere > Atmospheric Water Vapor > Sublimation > Sublimation of Blowing Snow
thesaurus name >
Title NASA / GCMD Science Keywords
revision  Date   2008-02-05
Theme keywords (theme):
Hydrosphere
Cryosphere
thesaurus name >
Title Realm > Hydrosphere
publication  Date   2018-11-21
other Citation Details  Cinergi keyword enhanced.File generated at Wed Nov 21 22:32:05 UTC 2018
Theme keywords (theme):
Hydrology
thesaurus name >
Title Science Domain > Earth Science
publication  Date   2018-11-21
other Citation Details  Cinergi keyword enhanced.File generated at Wed Nov 21 22:32:05 UTC 2018
Theme keywords (theme):
Cover
Continent
thesaurus name >
Title Realm > Geosphere
publication  Date   2018-11-21
other Citation Details  Cinergi keyword enhanced.File generated at Wed Nov 21 22:32:05 UTC 2018
Theme keywords (theme):
NSIDC
NOAA
thesaurus name >
Title Organization > GOVERNMENT AGENCIES-U.S. FEDERAL AGENCIES
publication  Date   2018-11-21
other Citation Details  Cinergi keyword enhanced.File generated at Wed Nov 21 22:32:05 UTC 2018
Theme keywords (theme):
Ocean
thesaurus name >
Title Feature > Marine Feature
publication  Date   2018-11-21
other Citation Details  Cinergi keyword enhanced.File generated at Wed Nov 21 22:32:05 UTC 2018
Theme keywords (theme):
Analysis
Averaging
thesaurus name >
Title Method > information processing
publication  Date   2018-11-21
other Citation Details  Cinergi keyword enhanced.File generated at Wed Nov 21 22:32:05 UTC 2018
Theme keywords (theme):
Water
Vapor
thesaurus name >
Title Material > Environmental Material
publication  Date   2018-11-21
other Citation Details  Cinergi keyword enhanced.File generated at Wed Nov 21 22:32:05 UTC 2018
Theme keywords (theme):
Centered
Runoff
Temperature
North
thesaurus name >
Title Property > Measure
publication  Date   2018-11-21
other Citation Details  Cinergi keyword enhanced.File generated at Wed Nov 21 22:32:05 UTC 2018
Theme keywords (theme):
Base
thesaurus name >
Title Material > Chemical
publication  Date   2018-11-21
other Citation Details  Cinergi keyword enhanced.File generated at Wed Nov 21 22:32:05 UTC 2018
Theme keywords (theme):
National Snow and Ice Data Center
thesaurus name >
Title Virtual International Authority File (VIAF) Corporate Names
publication  Date   2018-11-21
other Citation Details  Cinergi keyword enhanced.File generated at Wed Nov 21 22:32:05 UTC 2018
Theme keywords (theme):
Snow
Precipitation
thesaurus name >
Title Process > Atmospheric Process
publication  Date   2018-11-21
other Citation Details  Cinergi keyword enhanced.File generated at Wed Nov 21 22:32:05 UTC 2018
Theme keywords (theme):
Atmospheric Water Vapor
thesaurus name >
Title Realm > Atmosphere
publication  Date   2018-11-21
other Citation Details  Cinergi keyword enhanced.File generated at Wed Nov 21 22:32:05 UTC 2018
purpose:
Scientific Research
Resource language:  eng; usa
Character set encoding of resource:  UTF8
Resource progress code:  underdevelopment
Resource Maintenance Information
maintenance or update frequency:  asNeeded
update scope:  dataset
update scope:  series
update scope:  attribute
Constraints on resource usage:
Legal Constraints
Access Constraints  otherRestrictions
use constraint:  otherRestrictions
Other constraints
Access Constraints : none
Other constraints
Use Constraints : none
Resource extent
Extent description
SpatialCoverageType=HORIZONTAL, SpatialGranuleSpatialRepresentation=GEODETIC, TemporalRangeType=Continuous Range, TimeType=UTC
Geographic Extent
Geographic Bounding Box
westBoundLongitude  -130.5171
eastBoundLongitude  -62.2504
northBoundLatitude  58.2329
southBoundLatitude  24.0996
Geographic Bounding Box
westBoundLongitude  -124.7337
eastBoundLongitude  -66.9421
northBoundLatitude  52.8754
southBoundLatitude  24.9504
Temporal Extent
2003-09-28T00:00:00.000Z 2018-01-31T23:59:59.999Z
point of contact - principalInvestigator
individual Name Tom Carroll
organisation Name  National Weather Service
Contact information
Address
National Weather ServiceNational Operational Hydrologic Remote Sensing Center1735 Lake Drive W., Chanhassen, MN, 55317 Country USA
Linkage for online resource
name 
URL: http://nsidc.org
Description 
point of contact - pointOfContact
individual Name NSIDC User Services
organisation Name  National Snow and Ice Data Center
Contact information
Telephone
Voice 1 303 492 6199
Fax 1 303 492 2468
Address
CIRES, 449 UCBUniversity of Colorado, Boulder, CO, 80309-0449 Country USA
electronic Mail Address nsidc@nsidc.org
Linkage for online resource
name 
URL: http://nsidc.org
Description 
point of contact - custodian
individual Name NSIDC User Services
organisation Name  National Snow and Ice Data Center
Contact information
Telephone
Voice 1 303 492 6199
Fax 1 303 492 2468
Address
National Snow and Ice Data CenterCIRES, 449 UCBUniversity of Colorado, Boulder, CO, 80309-0449 Country USA
electronic Mail Address nsidc@nsidc.org
Linkage for online resource
name 
URL: http://nsidc.org
Description 
point of contact - distributor
individual Name NSIDC User Services
organisation Name  National Snow and Ice Data Center
Contact information
Telephone
Voice 1 303 492 6199
Fax 1 303 492 2468
Address
National Snow and Ice Data CenterCIRES, 449 UCBUniversity of Colorado, Boulder, CO, 80309-0449 Country USA
electronic Mail Address nsidc@nsidc.org
Linkage for online resource
name 
URL: http://nsidc.org
Description 
point of contact - processor
organisation Name  NOAA
Contact information
Linkage for online resource
name 
URL: http://nsidc.org/noaa/
Description 
point of contact - originator
organisation Name  NOAA
Contact information
Linkage for online resource
name 
URL: http://nsidc.org/noaa/
Description 
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Reference system information

Reference System Identifier
Identifier string: CARTESIAN
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Scope of quality information
scope level  series
Resource lineage description

Resource distribution information

Distributor
distributor contact - distributor
individual Name NSIDC User Services
organisation Name  National Snow and Ice Data Center
Contact information
Telephone
Voice 1 303 492 6199
Fax 1 303 492 2468
Address
National Snow and Ice Data CenterCIRES, 449 UCBUniversity of Colorado, Boulder, CO, 80309-0449 Country USA
electronic Mail Address nsidc@nsidc.org
Linkage for online resource
name 
URL: http://nsidc.org
Description 
Digital Transfer Options
Linkage for online resource
name FTP
URL: http://nsidc.org/forms/G02158_or.html?major_version=1
link function function
Description Direct download, with optional registration page.
Linkage for online resource
name Documentation
URL: https://dx.doi.org/10.7265/N5TB14TC
link function function
Description Documentation explaining the data and how it was processed.
Format
Format name Binary
Format version 
specification > FTP 2 - 100 MB

Description of extensions to base metadata standard

ExtendedElementInformation
Elementname Metadata Create Date
definition Create Date
dataType  Date
domainValue 2004-03-29
parentEntity 
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Description of extensions to base metadata standard

ExtendedElementInformation
Elementname Metadata Update Date
definition Update Date
dataType  Date
domainValue 2017-03-22
parentEntity 
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Metadata data stamp:  2017-03-22
Metadata contact - custodian
individual Name NSIDC User Services
organisation Name  National Snow and Ice Data Center
Contact information
Telephone
Voice 1 303 492 6199
Fax 1 303 492 2468
Address
National Snow and Ice Data CenterCIRES, 449 UCBUniversity of Colorado, Boulder, CO, 80309-0449 Country USA
electronic Mail Address nsidc@nsidc.org
Linkage for online resource
name 
URL: http://nsidc.org
Description 
Metadata scope code  series
Metadata hierarchy level name:  Snow Data Assimilation System (SNODAS) Data Products at NSIDC
Metadata language  eng; usa
Metadata character set encoding:   UTF8
Metadata standard for this record:  ISO 19115-2 Geographic Information 2009 Metadata
standard version:  ISO 19115-2:2009
Metadata record identifier:  Snow Data Assimilation System (SNODAS) Data Products at NSIDC, Version 1

Metadata record format is ISO19139-2 XML (MI_Metadata)