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    MODIS/Terra+Aqua Albedo Daily L3 Global 500 m SIN Grid

    Metadata Updated: February 23, 2025

    The MODIS Near Real Time (NRT) Combined Aqua and Terra Albedo, MCD43A3N is the daily L3 16-day composite global gridded tiled product that provides the black-sky albedo and the white-sky albedo at local solar noon for each of the 7 land bands, visible, near infra-red and the short wave bands. The albedo is retrieved for the current data day as identified in the product granule id using the BRDF/Albedo model parameters provided in the daily MCD43A1N product. The product also contains the mandatory QA dataset for each of the spectral albedo dataset in the file.

    The C61 NRT BRDF code has been modified to allow for an extra round of magnitude inversion, following a full inversion using the full set of inputs. This extra magnitude inversion will only use the set of 9 days that are overlapping between standard and NRT, with the highest weight being assigned to the last day.

    Additional information from MODIS Land Science Team website at: https://modis-land.gsfc.nasa.gov/brdf.html

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    Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. Non-Federal: This dataset is covered by different Terms of Use than Data.gov. License: No license information was provided.

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    Metadata Created Date February 23, 2025
    Metadata Updated Date February 23, 2025

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    Harvested from nasa test json

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    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date February 23, 2025
    Metadata Updated Date February 23, 2025
    Publisher NASA/GSFC/SED/ESD/HBSL/BISB/MODAPS
    Maintainer
    Identifier C2130636890-LANCEMODIS
    Data First Published 2021-09-10
    Language en-US
    Data Last Modified 2025-02-19
    Category Aqua, Terra, geospatial
    Public Access Level public
    Bureau Code 026:00
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    Harvest Source Title nasa test json
    Homepage URL https://doi.org/10.5067/MODIS/MCD43A3N.NRT.061
    Metadata Type geospatial
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    Program Code 026:001
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    Temporal 2021-09-13T00:00:00Z/2025-02-03T00:00:00Z

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