Cold regions hydrology high-resolution observatory for snow and cold land processes

Proceedings of the IEEE

Volumn 98, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 752-765

  Rott, Helmut ^a   Yueh, Simon H ^b   Cline, Donald W ^c   Duguay, Claude ^d   Essery, Richard ^e   Haas, Christian ^f,g   Heliere, Florence ^h   Kern, Michael ^h   MacElloni, Giovanni ⁱ   Malnes, Eirik ^j   Nagler, Thomas ^k   Pulliainen, Jouni ^l   Rebhan, Helge ^h   Thompson, Alan ^h  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^f ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^g UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^h EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Netherlands)

ⁱ IFAC CNR   (Italy)

^j NORUT IT   (Norway)

^k ENVEO IT GMBH   (Austria)

^l FINNISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Finland)

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Author keywords

Climate research; Earth observation satellite; Glaciers; Snow cover; Synthetic aperture radar; Water resources

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELS; COBALT COMPOUNDS; EARTH (PLANET); GLACIERS; HYDROLOGY; OBSERVATORIES; POLARIZATION; RHENIUM COMPOUNDS; SATELLITES; SEA ICE; SPACE-BASED RADAR; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; WATER RESOURCES; WATER SUPPLY;

CLIMATE RESEARCH; CRITICAL COMPONENT; DISTRIBUTED INFORMATION; DUAL-POLARIZATIONS; EARTH OBSERVATION SATELLITES; GLOBAL WATER CYCLE; SCATTERING SIGNALS; SNOW COVERS;

SNOW;

EID: 77952240485     PISSN: 00189219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JPROC.2009.2038947     Document Type: Article

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