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blizzard-noreaster·dataset

Nor'easter Snowfall Pattern

Nor’easter Snowfall Footprint
atmosphere NASA VEDA COG
In plain English

What it measures. A map showing the typical snowfall footprint of a Nor'easter, a powerful winter storm that batters the U.S. Northeast coast.

How it's made. Made as a single-value map layer outlining where this storm type usually drops snow.

How & where you'd use it. Helps forecasters and the public understand which areas Nor'easters tend to bury in snow.

What's measured

blizzardnoreaster

Coverage & cadence

  • Time span1950-01-01 → 1950-01-01
  • Spatial extent-77.504, 36.149, -65.001, 48.601
  • FormatsCOG

What you can do with it

  • Map air pollutants — NO₂, aerosols, ozone
  • Track greenhouse gases and Earth's energy budget
  • Feed weather and air-quality analysis
Official description

Single value raster displaying the general snowfall footprint of a Nor’easter type of mid-latitude cyclone.

Get the data

veda_access.py
# NASA VEDA — open STAC API, anonymous (cloud-optimized GeoTIFFs)
from pystac_client import Client

cat = Client.open("https://openveda.cloud/api/stac")
col = cat.get_collection("blizzard-noreaster")
items = list(col.get_items())          # browse the analysis-ready COGs
# open an asset with rioxarray:
# import rioxarray; da = rioxarray.open_rasterio(items[0].assets["cog_default"].href)
NASA VEDA is an open STAC catalog — browse and stream the cloud-optimized GeoTIFFs anonymously (no login).