Controls on Northern Hemisphere snow albedo feedback quantified using satellite Earth observations

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 36, Issue 21, 2009, Pages

  Fernandes, Richard ^a   Zhao, Hongxu ^a   Wang, Xuanji ^b   Key, Jeff ^c   Qu, Xin ^d   Hall, Alex ^d  

^a CANADA CENTRE FOR REMOTE SENSING   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; EARTH OBSERVATIONS; EFFECT OF TEMPERATURE; EURASIA; FREE SURFACES; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; INTERNATIONAL SATELLITE CLOUD CLIMATOLOGY PROJECTS; LAND SURFACE; MODEL BASED DIAGNOSIS; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; NORTHERN HEMISPHERES; PARAMETERIZATIONS; POLAR PATHFINDER; REANALYSIS; SATELLITE DATA; SNOW COVERED AREA; SNOW COVERS; SURFACE AIR TEMPERATURES; SURFACE ALBEDO;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERICS; CLIMATOLOGY; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; FEEDBACK; SATELLITES; SOLAR RADIATION; THERMAL EFFECTS;

SNOW;

AIR TEMPERATURE; ALBEDO; ATMOSPHERIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; AVHRR; CLIMATE FEEDBACK; CLIMATE MODELING; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; PARAMETERIZATION; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SNOW;

EURASIA; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 72049084238     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009GL040057     Document Type: Article

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