Monitoring mountain snowpack evolution using near-surface optical and thermal properties

Hydrological Processes

Volumn 18, Issue 18, 2004, Pages 3527-3542

  Lampkin, Derrick J ^a   Yool, Stephen R ^b  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Radiative transfer modelling; Remote sensing; Snowmelt

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE; HEAT RADIATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOISTURE; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; RADIOMETERS; THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES;

COLD LAND PROCESSES EXPERIMENT (CLPX); INTENSIVE STUDY AREAS (ISA); NEAR-SURFACE MOISTURE INDEX (NSMI); NORMALIZED DIFFERENCE SNOW INDEX (NDSI);

SNOW;

BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; REFLECTANCE; REMOTE SENSING; SNOWMELT; SNOWPACK;

ASTER;

EID: 11844275365     PISSN: 08856087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hyp.5797     Document Type: Article

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