Radiative forcing by light absorbing impurities in snow from MODIS surface reflectance data

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 39, Issue 17, 2012, Pages

  Painter, Thomas H ^a   Bryant, Ann C ^b   McKenzie Skiles, S ^c  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; DUST; RADIOMETERS; RADIOMETRY; REFLECTION; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SOLAR RADIATION; SUN; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ABSORPTION OF SOLAR RADIATION; BIAS CORRECTION; CARBONACEOUS PARTICLES; COLORADO RIVER BASIN; GLACIER MASS BALANCE; IMPURITIES IN; IN-SITU MEASUREMENT; MEAN ABSOLUTE ERROR; MIXED PIXEL; MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER; NEGATIVE BIAS; POSITIVE BIAS; RADIATIVE FORCINGS; ROOT MEAN SQUARED ERRORS; SNOW COVERS; SNOWMELT; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL VARIABILITY; SURFACE ALBEDO; SURFACE REFLECTANCE;

SNOW;

ABSORPTION; ALBEDO; DUST; ERROR ANALYSIS; IN SITU MEASUREMENT; MASS BALANCE; MODEL VALIDATION; MODIS; PIXEL; RADIATIVE FORCING; REMOTE SENSING; RIVER BASIN; SNOW COVER; SNOWMELT; SOLAR RADIATION; SPATIAL VARIATION; SURFACE REFLECTANCE; TEMPORAL VARIATION; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

COLORADO BASIN [NORTH AMERICA]; HIMALAYAS; HINDU KUSH;

EID: 84866290210     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012GL052457     Document Type: Article

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