Passive microwave remote sensing of the historic February 2010 snowstorms in the Middle Atlantic region of the USA

Hydrological Processes

Volumn 26, Issue 22, 2012, Pages 3459-3471

  Foster, James L ^a   Skofronick Jackson, Gail ^a   Meng, Huan ^b   Wang, James R ^b,e   Riggs, George ^e   Kocin, Paul J ^b   Johnson, Benjamin T ^a,c   Cohen, Judah ^f   Hall, Dorothy K ^a   Nghiem, Son V ^d  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b OFFICE OF RESEARCH AND APPLICATIONS   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^d CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^e SCIENCE SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS INC   (United States)

^f ATMOSPHERIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

AMSR E; AMSU B; Historical; MHS; Microwave; Snowfall

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED MICROWAVE SCANNING RADIOMETER; ADVANCED MICROWAVE SOUNDING UNIT-B; AMSR-E; AMSU-B; AQUA SATELLITES; ARCTIC OSCILLATION; BALTIMORE; BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURES; CONCERTED EFFORT; CONTRIBUTING FACTOR; HIGH FREQUENCY; HIGH LATITUDES; HIGH PRESSURE; HISTORICAL; HUMIDITY SOUNDERS; ICE LAYERS; LIQUID WATER CLOUDS; LOW PRESSURES; MAXIMUM TEMPERATURE; METROPOLITAN AREA; MHS; PASSIVE MICROWAVE REMOTE SENSING; PASSIVE MICROWAVE SIGNATURES; RETRIEVAL PERFORMANCE; SNOW COVERS; SNOW WATER EQUIVALENT; SURFACE FEATURE;

MICROWAVE ACOUSTIC DEVICES; MICROWAVES; RADIOMETERS; REMOTE SENSING; SNOW MELTING SYSTEMS; SOUNDING APPARATUS;

SNOW;

AMSR-E; AQUA (SATELLITE); ARCTIC OSCILLATION; BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE; METROPOLITAN AREA; REMOTE SENSING; SEVERE WEATHER; SNOW WATER EQUIVALENT; SNOWPACK; SNOWSTORM; WINTER;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BALTIMORE; MARYLAND; UNITED STATES; WASHINGTON [UNITED STATES];

EID: 84867194196     PISSN: 08856087     EISSN: 10991085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hyp.8418     Document Type: Article

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