Snow-cover environmental monitoring and assessment in Northeast China using passive microwave emission models

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 140, Issue 1-3, 2008, Pages 223-229

  Song, Kaishan ^a   Zhang, Yuanzhi ^b  

^a NORTHEAST INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHY AND AGRICULTURAL ECOLOGY   (China)

^b CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Microwave emission models; Radiative transfer; Snow cover environment; Snow packs; Strong function

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION METHODS; LUMINANCE; MATRIX ALGEBRA; MICROWAVES; MONITORING; PERMITTIVITY; RADIATIVE TRANSFER;

ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING AND ASSESSMENT; MICROWAVE EMISSION MODELS; SPHERICAL SYMMETRIC CORRELATION FUNCTION;

ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING;

BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GAUSSIAN METHOD; MICROWAVE RADIATION; PERMITTIVITY; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; SNOW COVER; SNOWPACK; TRANSFER FUNCTION;

ARTICLE; BRIGHTNESS; CHINA; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; FIELD WORK; FLUCTUATING ASYMMETRY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MICROWAVE RADIATION; PHYSICAL PARAMETERS; RADIATION EXPOSURE; SNOW COVER;

CHINA; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; MICROWAVES; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SNOW;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST;

EID: 41749103783     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: 15732959     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10661-007-9862-4     Document Type: Article

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