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Dewey and Heim's Northern Hemisphere Snow Cover, Weekly and Monthly 1966Nov-1991Dec
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This dataset, from the National Snow and Ice Data Center, contains weekly and monthly grids of snow cover fields for November 1966 through December 1991. The data values (indicating snow cover/no snow cover) are available on a 190.5 km resolution polar stereographic grid covering the Northern Hemisphere. Data were derived from NMC and Navy maps by Dewey and Heim at NOAA.
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1966-11 to 1991-12
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| VARIABLES: |
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| LEVELS: |
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| TIMES: |
Every week
Every month
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| TYPES: |
Grid
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| COVERAGE: |
Longitude Range: Westernmost=180W Easternmost=180E
Latitude Range: Southernmost=2.378S Northernmost=90N
 Detailed coverage information Detailed coverage information:
190.5km x 190.5km (at 60N) oriented 80W (89x89 North Polar Stereographic)
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| SOURCES: |
DOC/NOAA/NESDIS/OSDPD/SSD Satellite Services Division, Office of Satellite Data Processing and Distribution, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce
NSIDCNational Snow and Ice Data Center
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| PUBLICATIONS: |
Dewey, K.F. and Heim, R., Jr., 1982: Digital archive of Northern Hemisphere snow cover, November 1966 through December 1980. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 63(10), 1132-1141.
Dewey, K.F., and R. Heim, Jr., 1981: Satellite observations of variations in Northern Hemisphere seasonal snow cover. Technical Report NESS 87, NOAA, 83 pp.
Recommended acknowledgement for this dataset:
"The data for this study are from the Research Data Archive (RDA) which is maintained by the Computational and Information Systems Laboratory (CISL) at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). NCAR is sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF). The original data are available from the RDA (http://dss.ucar.edu) in dataset number ds315.0."
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| VOLUME: |
16.22 MBytes
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| DATA FORMATS: |
ASCII (see dataset documentation)
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| CONTACT: |
For assistance with this dataset, please contact
Bob Dattore (303-497-1825)
. If the specialist is unavailable, please contact
Data Help.
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