MODIS/Terra observed snow cover over the Tibet Plateau: Distribution, variation and possible connection with the East Asian Summer Monsoon (EASM)

Theoretical and Applied Climatology

Volumn 97, Issue 3-4, 2009, Pages 265-278

  Pu, Zhaoxia ^a   Xu, Li ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA SET; MODIS; MONSOON; SATELLITE DATA; SNOW COVER; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SUMMER;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

EID: 68349111787     PISSN: 0177798X     EISSN: 14344483     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00704-008-0074-9     Document Type: Article

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