Monitoring the melt season length of the Barnes Ice Cap over the 1979-2010 period using active and passive microwave remote sensing data

Hydrological Processes

Volumn 26, Issue 17, 2012, Pages 2643-2652

  Dupont, Florent ^a,b   Royer, Alain ^a   Langlois, Alexandre ^a   Gressent, Alicia ^a,b   Picard, Ghislain ^b   Fily, Michel ^b   Cliche, Patrick ^a   Chum, Miroslav ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

^b VERIMAG   (France)

Author keywords

Arctic climate change; Barnes Ice Cap; QuikSCAT; Remote sensing; SMMR; SSM I; Surface melting

Indexed keywords

ARCTIC CLIMATE CHANGE; ICE-CAPS; QUIKSCAT; SMMR; SSM/I; SURFACE MELTING;

ALGORITHMS; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERICS; CLIMATE CHANGE; MELTING; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; MICROWAVE DEVICES; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE GROUND STATIONS; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

SNOW;

AIR TEMPERATURE; BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE; MICROWAVE IMAGERY; MICROWAVE RADIOMETER; MONITORING SYSTEM; POLARIZATION; QUIKSCAT; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE DATA; SNOW COVER; SNOWMELT; SSM-I; SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

BAFFIN ISLAND; CANADA; CANADIAN ARCTIC; NUNAVUT;

EID: 84864758277     PISSN: 08856087     EISSN: 10991085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hyp.9382     Document Type: Article

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