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Snow Water Equivalent 2006-2024 (raster 5 km), northern hemisphere, daily - version 1

Snow Water Equivalent products describe the equivalent amount of liquid water stored in the snow pack. It indicates the water column that would theoretically result should the whole snow pack melt instantaneously and is defined as product between the snow layer’s depth and density.



Information about snow water equivalent is needed in applications such as flood forecasting, controlling the water level of power plant reservoirs, planning for forestry and crop irrigation and as input and control variable for many environment research purposes, including climate change research.

Simple

Identification info

Date (Creation)
2018-01-01
Date (Publication)
2018-01-01
Edition

1

Edition date
2023-09-25T00:00:00
Citation identifier
clms_global_swe_5km_v1_daily

Identifier

Code
10.2909/58ca9f01-a526-418d-8862-b4be43ef4738
Other citation details

https://land.copernicus.eu/en/products/snow/snow-water-equivalent-v1-0-5km

Purpose

This product is first designed to fit the requirements of the Global component of Land Service of the Copernicus programme. It can be also useful for all applications related to snow cover and the environment monitoring in general.

Credit

SWE products are generated by the land service of Copernicus, the Earth Observation programme of the European Commission. The research leading to the current version of the product has received funding from various European Commission Research and European Space Agency Technical Development programs. The product has been developed by Finnish Meteorological Institute.

Point of contact
Organisation Individual Electronic mail address Website Role

European Commission

https://commission.europa.eu

Owner

Copernicus Land Monitoring Service

JRC-Copernicus-Land@ec.europa.eu

https://land.copernicus.eu

Custodian

European Commission's Joint Research Centre

https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/

Publisher

Copernicus Land Monitoring Service helpdesk

JRC-Copernicus-Land@ec.europa.eu

https://land.copernicus.eu/en/contact-service-helpdesk

Point of contact
Spatial representation type
Grid

Spatial resolution

Spatial resolution
0.05 http://standards.iso.org/ittf/PubliclyAvailableStandards/ISO_19139_Schemas/resources/uom/ML_gmxUom.xml#deg
Topic category
  • Environment
  • Geoscientific information

Extent

N
S
E
W




Extent

Temporal extent

Time period
1 day composite dekad 2006-01-01 2024-06-30
Maintenance and update frequency
As needed
mmi:updateScope
Series

Resource format

Title

netCDF

Alternate title

Network Common Data Form

Date
Edition

4

EEA topics
  • Water
Spatial scope
  • Global
Continents, countries, sea regions of the world.
  • World
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
  • Meteorological geographical features
  • Land cover
Theme
  • SSMIS

  • VIIRS

  • SNOW WATER EQUIVALENT

Place
  • NHEMI

Temporal
  • 1 day composite

Temporal resolution
  • Daily

Resource constraints

Access constraints
Other restrictions
Other constraints
no limitations to public access

Resource constraints

Use constraints
Other restrictions
Other constraints

The Copernicus component is governed by Regulation (EU) No 2021/696 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 28 April 2021 establishing the Union Space Programme and the European Union Agency for the Space Programme and repealing Regulations (EU) No 912/2010, (EU) No 1285/2013 and (EU) No 377/2014 and Decision No 541/2014/EU. Within the Copernicus component, a portfolio of land monitoring activities has been delegated by the European Union to the European Environment Agency (EEA) and the DG Joint Research Centre of the European Commission.



The Copernicus land monitoring products and services are made available on a principle of full, open and free access, as established by the Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) No 1159/2013 of 12 July 2013.



Free, full and open access to the products and services of the Copernicus Land Monitoring Service is made on the conditions that:



1. When distributing or communicating Copernicus Land Monitoring Service products and services (data, software scripts, web services, user and methodological documentation and similar) to the public, users shall inform the public of the source of these products and services.



2. Where the Copernicus Land Monitoring Service products and services have been adapted or modified by the user, the user shall clearly state this.



3. Users shall make sure not to convey the impression to the public that the user's activities are officially endorsed by the European Union.

Language
English
Character encoding
UTF8

Distribution Information

Distribution format
  • netCDF

Units of distribution

Per product

OnLine resource

OnLine resource

OGC WMTS

OnLine resource

Copernicus Data Space Ecosystem download services

Units of distribution

Per product

OnLine resource

Copernicus Browser

Data quality info

Hierarchy level
Dataset

Report

Result

Title

Validation results conform CEOS LPV guidelines

Date (Publication)
2010-12-01
Explanation

https://land.copernicus.eu/en/products/snow/snow-water-equivalent-v1-0-5km

Pass
1

Report

Result

Title
COMMISSION REGULATION (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services
Date (Publication)
2010-12-08
Explanation

This data set is conformant with the INSPIRE Implementing Rules for the interoperability of spatial data sets and services

Pass
true

Report

Result

Title
INSPIRE Data Specification on orthoimagery - Guidelines
Date (Publication)
2010-04-26
Explanation

See the referenced specification

Pass
true

Resource lineage

Statement

The input data are the daily passive microwave observations by the SSMIS or VIIRS sensor.

Hierarchy level
Dataset

Spatial representation info

Number of dimensions
2
Cell geometry
Area
Transformation parameter availability
false
Check point availability
true
Check point description

Upperleft corner tiepoint

Description
Upperleft corner tiepoint
Identifier
upperLeftTiePoint
Name
Tie Point in upper left corner
Pixel orientation code

Reference System Information

Reference System Information

Code
EPSG:4326
Maintenance and update frequency
As needed

Metadata

Metadata identifier
58ca9f01-a526-418d-8862-b4be43ef4738

Language
English
Character encoding
UTF8
Contact
Organisation Individual Electronic mail address Website Role

Copernicus Land Monitoring Service

JRC-Copernicus-Land@ec.europa.eu

https://land.copernicus.eu

Point of contact

Type of resource

Resource type
Dataset
Metadata linkage

https://sdi.eea.europa.eu/catalogue/srv/api/records/58ca9f01-a526-418d-8862-b4be43ef4738

Date info (Creation)
2024-12-17T06:50:29.091476Z
Date info (Revision)
2025-10-09T10:51:51.244538Z

Metadata standard

Title

ISO 19115/19139

Edition

1.0

 
 
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Overviews

Snow Water Equivalent over northern hemisphere

Spatial extent

Keywords

1 day composite SNOW WATER EQUIVALENT SSMIS VIIRS
EEA topics

Water
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

Land cover Meteorological geographical features
Spatial scope

Global
Temporal resolution

Daily


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