Detection of snow surface thawing and refreezing in the Eurasian arctic with QuikSCAT: Implications for reindeer herding

Ecological Applications

Volumn 20, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 2346-2358

  Bartsch, Annett ^a   Kumpula, Timo ^b   Forbes, Bruce C ^c   Stammler, Florian ^c,d  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LAPLAND   (Finland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Active microwave; Climate change; Reindeer; Remote sensing; Scatterometer; Siberia; Snow; Yamal Nenets

Indexed keywords

SNOW;

ALGORITHM; CLIMATE CHANGE; DEER; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; FREEZING; GROUP BEHAVIOR; MIGRATORY BEHAVIOR; MONITORING; QUIKSCAT; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE DATA; SCATTEROMETER; SNOW; THAWING;

AGRICULTURE; ANIMAL; ARCTIC; ARTICLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; FREEZING; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION MIGRATION; REINDEER; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SEASON; TIME;

AGRICULTURE; ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; ARCTIC REGIONS; CLIMATE CHANGE; FREEZING; REINDEER; SEASONS; SIBERIA; SNOW; TIME FACTORS;

RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SIBERIA; YAMAL PENINSULA; YAMALO-NENETS;

RANGIFER TARANDUS;

EID: 78649965962     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/09-1927.1     Document Type: Article

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