Decadal variations of land surface temperature anomalies observed over the Tibetan Plateau by the Special Sensor Microwave Imager (SSM/I) from 1987 to 2008

Climatic Change

Volumn 114, Issue 3-4, 2012, Pages 769-781

  Salama, Mhd Suhyb ^a   van der Velde, Rogier ^a   Zhong, Lei ^b   Ma, Yaoming ^b   Ofwono, Matthew ^a   Su, Zhongbo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURES; CLIMATE STUDIES; EARTH OBSERVATIONS; IN-SITU MEASUREMENT; LAND SURFACE MODELS; LAND SURFACE TEMPERATURE; MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER; RADIATIVE TRANSFER MODEL; SOIL SURFACE TEMPERATURES; SPECIAL SENSOR MICROWAVE IMAGERS; TAKLAMAKAN; TIBETAN PLATEAU; TREND ANALYSIS;

EXTRATERRESTRIAL ATMOSPHERES; PLANETARY SURFACE ANALYSIS;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

AIR TEMPERATURE; BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE; CALIBRATION; DECADAL VARIATION; IN SITU MEASUREMENT; INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGE; LAND SURFACE; MODEL VALIDATION; MODIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; REGIONAL CLIMATE; SOIL SURFACE; SSM-I; SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TREND ANALYSIS;

CHINA; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

EID: 84865813328     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-012-0427-3     Document Type: Article

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