A comparison of SNOTEL and AMSR-E snow water equivalent data sets in Western US Watersheds

International Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 32, Issue 21, 2011, Pages 6611-6629

  Moser, Cody L ^a   Tootle, Glenn A ^a   Oubeidillah, Abdoul A ^a   Lakshmi, Venkat ^b  

^a University of Tennessee Knoxville   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; EARTH (PLANET); FLOODS; NASA; NEURONS; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITES; SINGULAR VALUE DECOMPOSITION; SNOW; SNOW MELTING SYSTEMS; STREAM FLOW; TELEMETERING EQUIPMENT; WATERSHEDS; WEATHER FORECASTING;

ADVANCED MICROWAVE SCANNING RADIOMETER-EARTH OBSERVING SYSTEM (AMSR-E); CORRELATION ANALYSIS; MULTIVARIATE TECHNIQUES; OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE; SNOW WATER EQUIVALENT; SNOWPACK TELEMETRIES; STREAMFLOW FORECAST; STREAMFLOW FORECASTING;

PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; AMSR-E; CORRELATION; DATA SET; FORECASTING METHOD; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING; SNOW WATER EQUIVALENT; SNOWPACK; STREAMFLOW; TELEMETRY; WATERSHED;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 82055175972     PISSN: 01431161     EISSN: 13665901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01431161.2010.512936     Document Type: Article

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