Remote Sensing Snow Cover Days Data Product for Sanjiangyuan National Park (2000-2020)- A Big Earth Data Platform for Three Poles

The Sanjiangyuan National Park is located in the hinterland of the Qinghai Tibet Plateau, the third pole of the Earth. It consists of the Yangtze River Source Park, the Yellow River Source Park, and the Lancang River Source Park, with a total area of 123100 square kilometers. The remote sensing snow cover days data product of Sanjiangyuan National Park is based on the daily cloudless snow cover area of 500 meters in China from 2000 to 2020. It is calculated based on the sum of the number of snow cover days observed in a hydrological year, with the hydrological year from September 1 to August 31 of the following year. The range of snow days is 0-365 days or 366 days, with an invalid value of -1. The data format is TIFF, the data projection is WGS84 projection, and the resolution is 500m.

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The product is named sjy_ MODIS_ Hydrological year_ Scd

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Hao, X. (2023). Remote Sensing Snow Cover Days Data Product for Sanjiangyuan National Park (2000-2020). A Big Earth Data Platform for Three Poles, (Download the reference： RIS | Bibtex )

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