New vegetation Albedo parameters and global fields of soil background Albedo derived from MODIS for use in a climate model

Journal of Hydrometeorology

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 183-198

  Houldcroft, Caroline J ^a   Grey, William M F ^a   Barnsley, Mike ^a,c   Taylor, Christopher M ^b   Los, Sietse O ^a   North, Peter R J ^a  

^a SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^c MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALBEDO; CLIMATE MODELING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; LAND COVER; MAPPING; MODIS; PARAMETERIZATION; SHORTWAVE RADIATION; SPATIAL VARIATION; VEGETATION;

EID: 65349164658     PISSN: 1525755X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2008JHM1021.1     Document Type: Article

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