The role of satellite data within GCOS Switzerland

Remote Sensing

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 767-780

  Seiz, Gabriela ^a   Foppa, Nando ^a   Meier, Marion ^a   Paul, Frank ^b  

^a FEDERAL OFFICE OF METEOROLOGY AND CLIMATOLOGY METEOSWISS   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Climatology; Clouds; ECV; GCOS; Glaciers; Mountains; Satellites; Switzerland

Indexed keywords

AREA-CHANGES; CLIMATE VARIABLES; CLOUD COVER; ECV; GCOS; GLACIER INVENTORY; GLOBAL CLIMATE OBSERVING SYSTEMS; GROUND BASED; IN-SITU OBSERVATIONS; MEASUREMENT TECHNIQUES; MOUNTAINS; POTENTIAL USERS; SATELLITE DATA; SWITZERLAND;

CLIMATOLOGY; GLACIERS;

SATELLITES;

EID: 80052004013     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs3040767     Document Type: Article

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