Retrieval of snow grain size and albedo of western Himalayan snow cover using satellite data

Cryosphere

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 831-847

  Negi, H S ^a,b   Kokhanovsky, A ^b  

^a Ministry of Defence   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRBORNE SENSING; ALBEDO; GLACIER; GRAIN SIZE; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; REFLECTANCE; SATELLITE DATA; SNOW; SPATIAL VARIATION; SPECTROMETER; WAVELENGTH;

HIMALAYAS;

HYPERION;

EID: 80054763501     PISSN: 19940416     EISSN: 19940424     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/tc-5-831-2011     Document Type: Article

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