A satellite snow depth multi-year average derived from SSM/I for the high latitude regions

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 112, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 2557-2568

  Biancamaria, Sylvain ^a   Mognard, Nelly M ^a   Boone, Aaron ^b   Grippa, Manuela ^c   Josberger, Edward G ^d  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b CENTRE NATIONAL DE RECHERCHES MÉTÉOROLOGIQUES   (France)

^c CNES   (France)

^d U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

GSWP2; High latitude regions; Lakes; Snow depth; SSM I; Taiga; Tundra

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CORRELATION METHODS; HYDROLOGY; LAKES; MICROWAVE MEASUREMENT; RADIOMETERS; SNOW; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION;

HIGH LATITUDE REGIONS; MICROWAVE SATELLITE MEASUREMENTS; SNOW DEPTH; TAIGA; TUNDRA;

SATELLITE IMAGERY;

AIR TEMPERATURE; ALGORITHM; BOREAL FOREST; BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE; GLOBAL CLIMATE; HYDROLOGICAL CYCLE; LAKE; MICROWAVE IMAGERY; MICROWAVE RADIOMETER; SNOW; SSM-I; TEMPORAL EVOLUTION; TUNDRA;

EURASIA; GREAT PLAINS; NORTH AMERICA; SIBERIA;

EID: 41249100840     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2007.12.002     Document Type: Article

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