An analysis of snow cover changes in the Himalayan region using MODIS snow products and in-situ temperature data

Climatic Change

Volumn 108, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 391-400

  Maskey, Shreedhar ^a   Uhlenbrook, Stefan ^a,b   Ojha, Sunal ^c  

^a UNESCO IHE INSTITUTE FOR WATER EDUCATION   (Netherlands)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^c Nepal Electricity Authority   (Nepal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HIGH ALTITUDE; HIMALAYAS; IN-SITU TEMPERATURE; MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER; MOUNT EVEREST; NEGATIVE CORRELATION; NET RADIATION; RIVER FLOW; SNOW COVERS; SNOW-COVER PRODUCTS; SPEARMAN'S RANK CORRELATION; TREND ANALYSIS; WIND SPEED; WIND SPEED DATA;

RADIOMETERS; SATELLITE IMAGERY; WIND EFFECTS;

SNOW;

EID: 80052264833     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-011-0181-y     Document Type: Letter

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