Spatiotemporal distribution of threatened high-latitude snowbed and snow patch habitats in warming climate

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Kivinen, Sonja ^a   Kaarlejärvi, Elina ^b   Jylhä, Kirsti ^c   Räisänen, Jouni ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

^b UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c FINNISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

climate warming; high latitude regions; remote sensing; snow; threatened habitats

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; ECOSYSTEMS; RAIN; REMOTE SENSING;

CLIMATE WARMING; CLIMATIC CONDITIONS; ECOSYSTEM SERVICES; GENERALIZED ADDITIVE MODEL; HIGH-LATITUDE REGIONS; INTERANNUAL VARIATION; NORMALIZED DIFFERENCE SNOW INDICES; SPATIOTEMPORAL DISTRIBUTIONS;

SNOW;

ANNUAL VARIATION; CLIMATE CONDITIONS; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; GLOBAL WARMING; HABITAT TYPE; LANDSAT; LATITUDE; NUMERICAL MODEL; REMOTE SENSING; SNOW COVER; SNOWMELT; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TERRAIN; TOPOGRAPHY;

FINLAND;

EID: 84866342793     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/7/3/034024     Document Type: Review

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