Snow depth and snow water equivalent estimation from AMSR-E data based on a priori snow characteristics in Xinjiang, China

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 127, Issue , 2012, Pages 14-29

  Dai, Liyun ^a,b   Che, Tao ^a   Wang, Jian ^a   Zhang, Pu ^c  

^a Chinese Academy of Sciences ^*  (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c Urumqi Meteorological Satellite Ground Station   (China)

Author keywords

Look up table; Passive microwave; Snow depth; Snow water equivalent

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE DIFFERENCE; BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURES; DATA CENTERS; DATA RETRIEVAL; DIFFERENT FREQUENCY; ECOLOGICAL SCIENCE; EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY; GRAIN SIZE; LOOK UP TABLE; METEOROLOGICAL STATION; MICROWAVE EMISSION MODELS; MICROWAVE SIGNALS; PARAMETERIZED; PASSIVE MICROWAVE REMOTE SENSING; PASSIVE MICROWAVES; RETRIEVAL ALGORITHMS; ROOT MEAN SQUARED ERRORS; SNOW AND ICE; SNOW COVERS; SNOW DEPTHS; SNOW GRAIN SIZE; SNOW WATER EQUIVALENT; THREE-LAYER; VOLUME SCATTERING; WEST CHINA; XINJIANG;

ALGORITHMS; ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; ESTIMATION; GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE; MICROWAVES; REMOTE SENSING; SNOW MELTING SYSTEMS; TABLE LOOKUP; TEMPERATURE;

SNOW;

AIR TEMPERATURE; ALGORITHM; AMSR-E; BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE; ERROR ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION METHOD; GRAIN SIZE; MICROWAVE IMAGERY; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE DATA; SNOW COVER; SNOW WATER EQUIVALENT; SNOWPACK;

CHINA; JIANGXI; XIN RIVER;

EID: 84866280233     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2011.08.029     Document Type: Article

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