Development of a dry-snow satellite algorithm and validation at the CEOP reference site in Yakutsk

Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan

Volumn 85 A, Issue SPEC. ISS., 2007, Pages 417-438

  Tsutsui, Hiroyuki ^a   Koike, Toshio ^a   Graf, Tobias ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; CLOUD COVER; EOS; ERROR ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION METHOD; FOREST COVER; GRAIN SIZE; MICROWAVE RADIOMETER; PERMAFROST; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; SATELLITE DATA; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SNOW;

EURASIA; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SAKHA; YAKUTSK;

EID: 34248673988     PISSN: 00261165     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2151/jmsj.85A.417     Document Type: Article

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