A satellite-derived climate-quality data record of the clear-sky surface temperature of the greenland ice sheet

Journal of Climate

Volumn 25, Issue 14, 2012, Pages 4785-4798

  Hall, Dorothy K ^a   Comiso, Josefino C ^a   Digirolamo, Nicolo E ^b   Shuman, Christopher A ^c   Key, Jeffrey R ^d   Koenig, Lora S ^a  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b SCIENCE SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS INC   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

^d OFFICE OF RESEARCH AND APPLICATIONS   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate records; Remote sensing; Satellite observations; Surface observations

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; CLIMATE DATA RECORDS; CLIMATE RECORD; CLIMATE STUDIES; CLOUD MASKS; DATA ASSIMILATION; DATA RECORDS; DATA SETS; GREENLAND; GREENLAND ICE SHEET; ICE SHEET; MASS BALANCE; MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER; POLAR PATHFINDER; SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SURFACE OBSERVATION; SURFACE TEMPERATURES; VISIBLE-INFRARED IMAGER-RADIOMETER SUITES;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; DATA PROCESSING; GLACIERS; METADATA; RADIOMETERS; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

MERGING;

ALGORITHM; AVHRR; DATA ASSIMILATION; DATA SET; ICE SHEET; MODIS; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE DATA; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

ARCTIC; GREENLAND; GREENLAND ICE SHEET;

EID: 84865127867     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-11-00365.1     Document Type: Article

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