Atmospheric corrections for improved satellite passive microwave snow cover retrievals over the Tibet Plateau

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 113, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 2661-2669

  Savoie, Matthew H ^a   Armstrong, Richard L ^a   Brodzik, Mary J ^a   Wang, James R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Atmospheric correction; IMS; MODIS; Passive microwave; Passive microwave snow; Radiative transfer; Snow cover; Tibet Plateau

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CORRECTION; IMS; MODIS; PASSIVE MICROWAVE; PASSIVE MICROWAVE SNOW; SNOW COVER; TIBET PLATEAU;

AIRCRAFT; ALGORITHMS; CLIMATOLOGY; INSULATING MATERIALS; MICROWAVES; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; RADIOMETERS; SATELLITES; SENSORS; SPECTROMETERS;

SNOW;

ANNUAL VARIATION; ATMOSPHERIC CORRECTION; CLIMATOLOGY; MICROWAVE IMAGERY; MODIS; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; SATELLITE SENSOR; SNOW COVER;

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

EID: 70349973454     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2009.08.006     Document Type: Article

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