A method for the detection of the severe rain-on-snow event on Banks Island, October 2003, using passive microwave remote sensing

Water Resources Research

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2008, Pages

  Grenfell, T C ^a   Putkonen, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; RAIN; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITES; SOIL SURVEYS;

SOIL TEMPERATURE; SUBSNOWPACK ICE LAYER;

SNOW;

CLIMATOLOGY; RAIN; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITES; SNOW; SOIL SURVEYS;

ARCTIC ENVIRONMENT; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DETECTION METHOD; ICE COVER; MICROWAVE IMAGERY; POPULATION DECLINE; RAINFALL; REMOTE SENSING; SNOWPACK; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; TUNDRA; UNGULATE;

BANKS ISLAND; CANADA; NORTH AMERICA; NORTHWEST TERRITORIES;

ANIMALIA; BOS; RANGIFER TARANDUS; UNGULATA;

EID: 43049112419     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007WR005929     Document Type: Article

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