{"id":85,"date":"2017-09-24T11:56:43","date_gmt":"2017-09-24T11:56:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/snow.geus.dk\/?p=85"},"modified":"2017-10-24T09:26:49","modified_gmt":"2017-10-24T09:26:49","slug":"daily-greenland-arctic-canada-and-iceland-land-ice-albedo-grids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/snow.geus.dk\/index.php\/2017\/09\/24\/daily-greenland-arctic-canada-and-iceland-land-ice-albedo-grids\/","title":{"rendered":"daily Greenland, Arctic Canada and Iceland land ice albedo grids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Daily 0.5 km, 1 km and 5 km resolution Greenland, Arctic Canada and Iceland glaciated area albedo grids are available beginning April 2000 and (currently ending) September, 2017. The data are\u00a0based on NASA MOD10A1 Collection 6 data\u00a0with de-noising, gap filling, and bias correction after\u00a0Box et al. (2017).<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_98\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-98\" style=\"width: 787px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/snow.geus.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/Fig-1-albedo-product.png\"><img data-attachment-id=\"98\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/snow.geus.dk\/index.php\/2017\/09\/24\/daily-greenland-arctic-canada-and-iceland-land-ice-albedo-grids\/fig-1-albedo-product\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/snow.geus.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/Fig-1-albedo-product.png?fit=1702%2C2214\" data-orig-size=\"1702,2214\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Fig 1 albedo product\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;An example (15 July 2016) of the daily 500 m x 500 m enhanced MOD10A1 Collection 6 albedo product presented in this article.&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/snow.geus.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/Fig-1-albedo-product.png?fit=231%2C300\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/snow.geus.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/Fig-1-albedo-product.png?fit=787%2C1024\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-98\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/snow.geus.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/Fig-1-albedo-product.png?resize=787%2C1024\" alt=\"\" width=\"787\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/snow.geus.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/Fig-1-albedo-product.png?resize=787%2C1024 787w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/snow.geus.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/Fig-1-albedo-product.png?resize=231%2C300 231w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/snow.geus.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/Fig-1-albedo-product.png?resize=768%2C999 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/snow.geus.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/Fig-1-albedo-product.png?resize=1200%2C1561 1200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/snow.geus.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/Fig-1-albedo-product.png?w=1702 1702w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-98\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">An example (15 July 2016) of the daily 500 m x 500 m enhanced MOD10A1 Collection 6 albedo product presented in this article.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The grids are available\u00a0through <a href=\"http:\/\/www.promice.dk\/home.html\">PROMICE<\/a>\u00a0at 5 km resolution. Data at\u00a0the\u00a0native 500 m resolution and 1 km resolution are available on\u00a0request (jeb at geus dot dk).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Grid Properties<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The data are distributed in NetCDF format and contain latitude, longitude, land mask. The map projection information:<\/p>\n<p>Polar Stereographic<br \/>\nMap Reference Latitude: 90.0<br \/>\nMap Second Reference Latitude: 71.0<br \/>\nMap Reference Longitude: -39.0<br \/>\nMap Equatorial Radius: 6370.0<br \/>\nGrid Width: 301<br \/>\nGrid Height: 561<br \/>\nGrid Map Units per Cell: 5.0 ; km<br \/>\nMap Origin X: -800<br \/>\nMap Origin Y: -600<\/p>\n<p><strong>Works Cited<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Box, J.E., D.\u00a0van As, K.\u00a0Steffen, 2017.\u00a0<strong>Greenland, Canadian and Icelandic land ice albedo grids (2000-2016)<\/strong>,\u00a0Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland Bulletin, 38, 53-56.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.geus.dk\/DK\/publications\/geol-survey-dk-gl-bull\/38\/Documents\/nr38_p53-56.pdf\">link<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daily 0.5 km, 1 km and 5 km resolution Greenland, Arctic Canada and Iceland glaciated area albedo grids are available beginning April 2000 and (currently ending) September, 2017. The data are\u00a0based on NASA MOD10A1 Collection 6 data\u00a0with de-noising, gap filling, and bias correction after\u00a0Box et al. (2017). The grids are available\u00a0through PROMICE\u00a0at 5 km resolution. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/snow.geus.dk\/index.php\/2017\/09\/24\/daily-greenland-arctic-canada-and-iceland-land-ice-albedo-grids\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;daily Greenland, Arctic Canada and Iceland land ice albedo grids&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paxG8S-1n","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":111,"url":"http:\/\/snow.geus.dk\/index.php\/2017\/11\/01\/snow-albedo-validation-publications\/","url_meta":{"origin":85,"position":0},"title":"snow albedo validation publications","date":"November 1, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Box, J.E., D. van As, K. 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