Relating MODIS-derived surface albedo to soils and rock types over Northern Africa and the Arabian peninsula

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 29, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 67-1-67-4

  Tsvetsinskaya, Elena A ^a   Schaaf, C B ^a   Gao, F ^a   Strahler, A H ^a   Dickinson, R E ^b   Zeng, X ^c   Lucht, W ^d  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^d POTSDAM INSTITUTE FOR CLIMATE IMPACT RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARID REGIONS; CLIMATOLOGY; GEOLOGY; ROCKS; SOLAR RADIATION; SPACECRAFT; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; VOLCANOES;

ALBEDO; PENINSULA; SPECTRORADIOMETERS;

SOILS;

ALBEDO; ARID ENVIRONMENT; GEOLOGY; MODIS; SOIL TYPE;

(NORTH); AFRICA; ARABIAN PENINSULA; ASIA;

EID: 0036558497     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2001GL014096     Document Type: Article

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