Snow cover monitoring in the Northern Patagonia Icefield using MODIS satellite images (2000-2006)

Global and Planetary Change

Volumn 61, Issue 3-4, 2008, Pages 103-116

  Lopez, Paulina ^a   Sirguey, Pascal ^b   Arnaud, Yves ^c   Pouyaud, Bernard ^a   Chevallier, Pierre ^a  

^a INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^c INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

Author keywords

climate change; low resolution satellite images; Patagonia; snow cover

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; ICE FIELD; MASS BALANCE; METEOROLOGY; MODIS; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SATELLITE IMAGERY; SEASONALITY; SNOW COVER;

PATAGONIA; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 41949086902     PISSN: 09218181     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2007.07.005     Document Type: Article

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