Assessing the quality of a real-time Snow Cover Area product for hydrological applications

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 127, Issue , 2012, Pages 271-287

  Thirel, G ^a   Notarnicola, C ^b   Kalas, M ^a   Zebisch, M ^b   Schellenberger, T ^b,c   Tetzlaff, A ^b   Duguay, M ^b   Molg N ^b,d   Burek, P ^a   de Roo, A ^a  

^a JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

^b INSTITUTE FOR RENEWABLE ENERGY   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Comparison; Hydrological model; Real time dataset; Snow cover area

Indexed keywords

COMPARISON; DATA SETS; DISCHARGE SIMULATIONS; DISTRIBUTED HYDROLOGICAL MODEL; FLOOD FORECAST; FOREST COVER; HIGH IMPACT; HYDROLOGICAL FIELDS; HYDROLOGICAL MODELS; HYDROLOGICAL SIMULATIONS; MISCLASSIFICATIONS; MODEL VARIABLES; MODIS SENSORS; OBSERVED DATA; OPERATIONAL APPLICATIONS; SNOW COVER AREA;

CLIMATE MODELS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLOOD CONTROL; HYDROLOGY; NASA; RADIOMETERS;

SNOW;

CALIBRATION; CLOUD CLASSIFICATION; DATA SET; FLOOD FORECASTING; FOREST COVER; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; MODIS; REAL TIME; SATELLITE DATA; SNOW COVER;

EUROPE;

EID: 84867206169     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2012.09.006     Document Type: Article

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