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d004·dataset

How hot the ground gets each day

MODIS Terra Land Surface Temperature/Emissivity Daily 1km
LP DAAC MOD11A1 1 km daily HDF-EOS2 landurban-heatdroughtwater-cycle

The 25-year daily land-surface-temperature climatology — drives urban-heat-island, agricultural-stress, and surface-energy-balance studies.

MODIS Terra Land Surface Temperature/Emissivity Daily 1km

The 25-year daily land-surface-temperature climatology — drives urban-heat-island, agricultural-stress, and surface-energy-balance studies.

Access

Gotchas

  • MYD11A1 (Aqua) gives diurnal contrast pair
  • QC flag is critical; bad pixels under cloud cover are very common
  • 1 km LST != surface air temperature (use with caution for human-heat-exposure work)
  • Other datasets: d003, d009

Sources

The access details, code, and sources below are kept in the original English for technical accuracy.

Quick access (cloud-direct)

mod11a1_access.py
import earthaccess
earthaccess.login(strategy="netrc")

results = earthaccess.search_data(
    short_name="MOD11A1",
    bounding_box=(-122.5, 37.2, -121.8, 37.9),
    temporal=("2024-01-01", "2024-12-31"),
)
files = earthaccess.open(results)   # stream from LP DAAC
Browsing CMR needs no login. Downloading or streaming bytes needs a free Earthdata Login + the earthaccess package.

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MODIS LST MOD11A1 / MOD11A2
LP DAAC