A comparison of modeled, remotely sensed, and measured snow water equivalent in the northern Great Plains

Water Resources Research

Volumn 39, Issue 8, 2003, Pages

  Mote, Thomas L ^a   Grandstein, Andrew J ^a   Leathers, Daniel J ^b   Robinson, David A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^c RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

1640 Global Change: Remote sensing; 1863 Hydrology: Snow and ice (1827); 1878 Hydrology: Water energy interactions

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DATA REDUCTION; ESTIMATION; MICROWAVES; REMOTE SENSING; SNOW; WATERSHEDS;

SNOW COVERS; SNOW WATER EQUIVALENT (SWE);

WATER RESOURCES;

COMPARATIVE STUDY; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; REMOTE SENSING; SNOW COVER; SNOW WATER EQUIVALENT; SPATIAL VARIATION; WATERSHED;

GREAT PLAINS; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 0141462916     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2002WR001782     Document Type: Article

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