ESA DUE Globsnow – Global Snow Database for Climate Research

This paper presents the efforts of the ESA DUE GlobSnow project for creating two global scale snow dataset covering 15 and 30 years of satellite-based observations, one describing the extent of snow cover (SE) the other describing the snow water equivalent (SWE) characteristics. The main emphasis of the paper is describing the validation work carried out for the SWE product that will cover the non-mountainous regions of Northern Hemisphere on a daily basis starting from 1979. The work has been carried out within the ESA GlobSnow project.