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Dataset Title:	Fractional snow-covered area in the Ny-Alesund area
Institution:	CNR (Dataset ID: salzano_fractional)
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Dimensions	Size	Spacing
time (UTC)	1340	1 day 2h 10m 10s (uneven)

Y (Y coordinate, m)	469	10.0 (even)

X (X coordinate, m)	672	10.0 (even)

Grid Variables (which always also download all of the dimension variables)

fsca (Fractional snow covered area, 1)

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The Dataset Attribute Structure (.das) for this Dataset

Attributes {
  time {
    String _ChunkSizes "512";
    String _CoordinateAxisType "Time";
    Float64 actual_range 1.57788e+9, 1.704027601e+9;
    String attribute_description "Time of the measurement";
    String axis "T";
    String coverage_content_type "coordinate";
    String ioos_category "Time";
    String long_name "Time";
    String short_name "time";
    String standard_name "time";
    String time_origin "01-JAN-1970 00:00:00";
    String units "seconds since 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z";
  }
  Y {
    Float64 actual_range 8761225.0, 8765905.0;
    String attribute_description "\"y\" indicates a vector component along the grid y-axis, when this is not true latitude, positive with increasing y. Projection coordinates are distances in the x- and y-directions on a plane onto which the surface of the Earth has been projected according to a map projection. The relationship between the projection coordinates and latitude and longitude is described by the grid_mapping.";
    String coverage_content_type "coordinate";
    String long_name "Y coordinate";
    String short_name "Y";
    String standard_name "projection_y_coordinate";
    String units "m";
  }
  X {
    Float64 actual_range 430685.0, 437395.0;
    String attribute_description "\"x\" indicates a vector component along the grid x-axis, when this is not true longitude, positive with increasing x. Projection coordinates are distances in the x- and y-directions on a plane onto which the surface of the Earth has been projected according to a map projection. The relationship between the projection coordinates and latitude and longitude is described by the grid_mapping.";
    String coverage_content_type "coordinate";
    String long_name "X coordinate";
    String short_name "X";
    String standard_name "projection_x_coordinate";
    String units "m";
  }
  fsca {
    String _ChunkSizes "1 469 672";
    String attribute_description "\"Area fraction\" is the fraction of a grid cell's horizontal area that has some characteristic of interest. It is evaluated as the area of interest divided by the grid cell area. It may be expressed as a fraction, a percentage, or any other dimensionless representation of a fraction. Snow \"viewable from above\" refers to the snow on objects or the ground as viewed from above, which excludes, for example, falling snow flakes and snow obscured by a canopy, vegetative cover, or other features resting on the surface.";
    String coordinates "time Y X";
    String coverage_content_type "physicalMeasurement";
    String grid_mapping "UTM_projection";
    String long_name "Fractional snow covered area";
    String short_name "fsca";
    String standard_name "snow_area_fraction_viewable_from_above";
    String units "1";
    Int32 valid_max 100;
    Int32 valid_min 0;
  }
  NC_GLOBAL {
    String _NCProperties "version=1|netcdflibversion=4.4.1.1|hdf5libversion=1.8.16";
    String acknowledgment "The dataset is provided in the framework of the SIOS core data curation call [Research Council of Norway, project number 291644, Svalbard Integrated Arctic Earth Observing System - Knowledge Centre, operational phase] and with the support of the Norwegian Polar Institute";
    String cdm_data_type "Grid";
    String cdm_timeseries_variables "time";
    String character_encoding "utf8";
    String comment "JC Gallet supported the CNR team in accessing imagery from the Zeppelin Observatory";
    String contributor_email "info@niveos.cnr.it";
    String contributor_institution "CNR";
    String contributor_name "Rosamaria Salvatori";
    String contributor_role "dataProcessing";
    String Conventions "CF-1.7,ACDD-1.3";
    String creator_email "info@niveos.cnr.it";
    String creator_individual "Roberto Salzano";
    String creator_institution "CNR";
    String creator_name "CNR";
    String creator_type "institution";
    String creator_url "www.niveos.cnr.it";
    String dataFormatType "netCDF";
    String date_created "2021-11-16T15:40:19Z";
    String date_issued "2021-11-16T15:40:19Z";
    String date_metadata_modified "2021-11-16T15:40:19Z";
    String date_modified "2021-11-16T15:40:19Z";
    String geospatial_bounds "POLYGON (78.92,11.93,79,12)";
    String geospatial_bounds_crs "http://www.opengis.net/def/crs/EPSG/0/4326";
    String geospatial_bounds_vertical_crs "http://www.opengis.net/def/crs/EPSG/8.5/4979";
    String grid_mapping_false_easting "500000.0";
    String grid_mapping_false_northing "0.0";
    String grid_mapping_inverse_flattening "298.257223563";
    String grid_mapping_latitude_of_projection_origin "0.0";
    String grid_mapping_long_name "UTM 33 projection WGS84";
    String grid_mapping_longitude_of_central_meridian "15.0";
    String grid_mapping_longitude_of_prime_meridian "0.0";
    String grid_mapping_name "transverse_mercator";
    String grid_mapping_scale_factor_at_central_meridian "0.9996";
    String grid_mapping_semi_major_axis "6378137.0";
    String grid_mapping_short_name "UTM_projection";
    String history 
"orthorettification, image classification
2024-12-22T12:32:17Z (local files)
2024-12-22T12:32:17Z https://data.iadc.cnr.it/erddap/griddap/salzano_fractional.das";
    String id "10.5281/zenodo.5705594";
    String infoUrl "https://metadata.iadc.cnr.it/geonetwork/srv/api/records/236a77a6-58e4-438e-8636-01d466db7037";
    String institution "CNR";
    String instrument "ensambling of different time-lapse cameras";
    String keywords "GEMET:snow, INSPIRE:land cover";
    String keywords_vocabulary "GEMET:GEneral Multilingual Environmental Thesaurus, INSPIRE:GEMET - INSPIRE themes; version 1.0";
    String keywords_vocabulary_publication_date "GEMET:2021-01-21, INSPIRE:2008-06-01";
    String language "eng";
    String language_name "English";
    String license "CC BY-NC: This license allows reusers to distribute, remix, adapt, and build upon the material in any medium or format for noncommercial purposes only, and only so long as attribution is given to the creator.";
    String limitations_on_public_access "no limitations to public access";
    String metadata_creator_email "info@niveos.cnr.it";
    String metadata_creator_individual "Roberto Salzano";
    String metadata_creator_institution "Italian National Research Council";
    String metadata_scope "dataset";
    String naming_authority "International DOI Foundation";
    String platform "station";
    String processing_level "data are orthorectified";
    String project "SnowCorD - SIOS Core Data";
    String project_URL "https://iadc.cnr.it";
    String publisher_email "info@niveos.cnr.it";
    String publisher_institution "Italian National Research Council";
    String publisher_name "Italian National Research Council";
    String publisher_type "institution";
    String publisher_url "www.niveos.cnr.it";
    String source "data are obtanied ensambling images obtained at the CCTower and at the Zeppelin Observatory";
    String sourceUrl "(local files)";
    String standard_name_vocabulary "CF Standard Name Table v78";
    String summary "The gridded datasets is a ensembled product obtained processing imagery acquired by different time-lapse cameras located at the Zeppelin Observatory, at the Gruvebadet Snow Research Site and at the Amundsen-Nobile Climate Change Tower.";
    String time_coverage_duration "P1Y";
    String time_coverage_end "2023-12-31T13:00:01Z";
    String time_coverage_resolution "P1D";
    String time_coverage_start "2020-01-01T12:00:00Z";
    String title "Fractional snow-covered area in the Ny-Alesund area";
    String topic_category "imageryBaseMapsEarthCover";
  }
}

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