Evaluation of spring snow covered area depletion in the Canadian Arctic from NOAA snow charts

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 95, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 453-463

  Wang, Libo ^a   Sharp, Martin ^a   Brown, Ross ^b   Derksen, Chris ^b   Rivard, Benoit ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Canadian arctic; NOAA snow charts; Snow cover extent; Spring melt

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLOUDS; DATA REDUCTION; MICROWAVES; RADIOMETERS; SENSORS; SURVEYS;

DATASETS; SNOW COVER EXTENT (SCE); SPECIAL SENSOR MICROWAVE (SSM); SPRING SNOW;

SNOW;

ARCTIC ENVIRONMENT; NOAA SATELLITE; REMOTE SENSING; SNOW COVER; SNOWMELT; SPRING (SEASON);

CANADA; NORTH AMERICA; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

EID: 16344375124     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2005.01.006     Document Type: Article

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