Systematic bias of average winter-time land surface temperatures inferred from MODIS at a site on Svalbard, Norway

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 118, Issue , 2012, Pages 162-167

  Westermann, Sebastian ^a,b   Langer, Moritz ^a   Boike, Julia ^a  

^a ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

Land surface temperature; MODIS; Permafrost; Snow; Svalbard; Winter

Indexed keywords

CLOUD DETECTION; CLOUD-TOP TEMPERATURES; COLD SURFACE; COLD TEMPERATURES; GROUND BASED; GROUND BASED MEASUREMENT; LAND SURFACE TEMPERATURE; MODERATE RES-OLUTION IMAGING SPECTROMETERS; MODIS; NEGATIVE BIAS; OPERATION PERIOD; PAN-ARCTIC; POINT MEASUREMENT; REMOTE SENSING PLATFORMS; SNOW SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SURFACE TEMPERATURES; SVALBARD; SYSTEMATIC BIAS; WARM SURFACE; WINTER; WINTER SEASONS;

ATMOSPHERICS; CLIMATE CHANGE; PERMAFROST; RADIOMETERS; REMOTE SENSING; SNOW; SPECTROMETERS; SURFACE MEASUREMENT; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

AQUA (SATELLITE); ARCTIC ENVIRONMENT; CLEAR SKY; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLOUD COVER; GROUND-BASED MEASUREMENT; LAND SURFACE; MODIS; PERMAFROST; SNOW COVER; SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TERRA (SATELLITE); WINTER;

ARCTIC; NORWAY; SVALBARD; SVALBARD AND JAN MAYEN;

EID: 83455181670     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2011.10.025     Document Type: Article

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