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MODIS Terra+Aqua BRDF/Albedo 0.05Deg CMG QA Science Data Sets

The table below lists the four Science Data Sets representing Quality in the BRDF/Albedo CMG products, with applicable QC bit legends.

Note 1: Percent_Snow is not present in “MCD43C2 BRDF/Albedo Snow-free Quality”, as the value would be definition of the product always be 0.

Note 2: Local_Solar_Noon, Percent_Inputs, and Percent_Snow do not utilize their full 0 - 254 range (see below).

This information is excerpted from the file specifications for V005 MCD43Cs found at ftp://modular.nascom.nasa.gov/pub/LatestFilespecs/collection5/.

Bit Comb.

BRDF_Albedo_Quality

0 best quality, 75% or more with best full inversions
1 good quality, 75% or more with full inversions
2 mixed, 75% or less full inversions and 25% or less fill values  
3 all magnitude inversions or 50% or less fill values
4 50% or more fill values
255 FillValue
   
  Local_Solar_Noon
0-254 Zenith Angle at local solar noon (0 - 90 degrees)
255 FillValue
   
  Percent_Inputs
0-254 Percent of the processed finer resolution data which contributed to this CMG pixel (0 - 100%)
255 FillValue
   
  Percent_Snow
0-254 Percent of underlying data flagged as snow (0 - 100%)
255 FillValue



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