Fractional snow cover in the Colorado and Rio Grande basins, 1995-2002

Water Resources Research

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2008, Pages

  Bales, R C ^a   Dressler, K A ^b   Imam, B ^c   Fassnacht, S R ^d   Lampkin, D ^b  

^a Merced   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FORECASTING; OPTIMIZATION; RADIOMETERS; REMOTE SENSING; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

FRACTIONAL SNOW COVER; SCA PRODUCT;

SNOW;

FORECASTING; OPTIMIZATION; RADIOMETERS; REMOTE SENSING; SNOW; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

ANNUAL VARIATION; CLOUD COVER; COMPARATIVE STUDY; PIXEL; RADIOMETER; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE; SNOW COVER;

COLORADO RIVER [NORTH AMERICA]; NORTH AMERICA; RIO GRANDE BASIN;

EID: 39749161460     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006WR005377     Document Type: Article

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