Temporal and spatial variability of the beginning and end of daily spring freeze/thaw cycles derived from scatterometer data

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 106, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 360-374

  Bartsch, Annett ^a   Kidd, Richard A ^b   Wagner, Wolfgang ^a   Bartalis, Zoltan ^a  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b Badan Rekonstruksi dan Rehabilitasi NAD Nias ^*  (Indonesia)

Author keywords

Biogeochemical processes; Freeze thaw; Remote sensing; Scatterometer; Siberia

Indexed keywords

BIOMECHANICS; EXTRACTION; REMOTE SENSING; SPATIAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT;

BIOGEOCHEMICAL PROCESSES; SCATTEROMETER DATA; SPRING FREEZE/THAW CYCLES;

THAWING;

BOREAL FOREST; EVERGREEN FOREST; FREEZE-THAW CYCLE; SCATTEROMETER; SNOWMELT; SPATIAL VARIATION; SPRING (SEASON); STEPPE; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TUNDRA;

EURASIA; SIBERIA;

EID: 33846459003     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2006.09.004     Document Type: Article

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