Snow Albedo’s Dependence on Solar Zenith Angle from In Situ and MODIS Data

Atmospheric and Oceanic Science Letters

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 45-50

  Wang, Zhuo ^a   Zeng, Xubin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

land model; MODIS; snow albedo

Indexed keywords

ALBEDO; ALGORITHM; DATA SET; IN SITU MEASUREMENT; MODIS; SNOW; SNOW COVER; SOLAR RADIATION; ZENITH ANGLE;

CANADA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77953522940     PISSN: 16742834     EISSN: 23766123     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/16742834.2008.11446763     Document Type: Article

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