Spatio-temporal variability of snowmelt across Svalbard during the period 2000-08 derived from QuikSCAT/SeaWinds scatterometry

Polar Research

Volumn 30, Issue SUPPL.1, 2011, Pages

  Rotschky, Gerit ^a   Schuler, Thomas Vikhamar ^b   Haarpaintner, Jörg ^c   Kohler, Jack ^a   Isaksson, Elisabeth ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN POLAR INSTITUTE   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^c Norut AS   (Norway)

Author keywords

Climate variability; Radar remote sensing; Scatterometry; Snowmelt detection; Svalbard

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; ANNUAL VARIATION; CLIMATE MODELING; CLIMATE VARIATION; GLOBAL WARMING; ICE COVER; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); QUIKSCAT; RADAR; REMOTE SENSING; SCATTEROMETER; SNOW COVER; SNOWMELT; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SYNOPTIC METEOROLOGY; WIND; ATMOSPHERIC FRONT; SATELLITE DATA; SEAWINDS; SPATIAL VARIATION; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

ARCTIC; ARCTIC OCEAN; BARENTS SEA; NORWEGIAN SEA; SVALBARD; SVALBARD AND JAN MAYEN;

EID: 79956071532     PISSN: 08000395     EISSN: 17518369     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3402/polar.v30i0.5963     Document Type: Review

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