Assessment of spring snow cover duration variability over northern Canada from satellite datasets

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 111, Issue 2-3, 2007, Pages 367-381

  Brown, Ross ^a   Derksen, Chris ^a   Wang, Libo ^b  

^a ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Arctic; NOAA snow charts; Passive microwave; QuikSCAT; Snow cover duration

Indexed keywords

DATA STRUCTURES; MICROWAVES; SCATTERING; SET THEORY; SPATIAL VARIABLES CONTROL;

DATASETS; PASSIVE MICROWAVE; SNOW COVER DURATION;

REMOTE SENSING;

DATA SET; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; NSCAT; QUIKSCAT; SATELLITE DATA; SNOW COVER;

ARCTIC; CANADA; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 35548960085     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2006.09.035     Document Type: Article

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