Quantifying the relationships between lake fraction, snow water equivalent and snow depth, and microwave brightness temperatures in an arctic tundra landscape

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 127, Issue , 2012, Pages 329-340

  Green, Jeff ^a   Kongoli, Cezar ^b,c   Prakash, Anupma ^a   Sturm, Mathew ^d   Duguay, Claude ^e   Li, Shusun ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^c National Environmental Satellite Data and Information Service   (United States)

^d Engineering Research and Development Center   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

AMSR E; Arctic tundra; Lake fraction; Passive microwave; Snow depth; Snow water equivalent; SSM I

Indexed keywords

AMSR-E; ARCTIC TUNDRA; PASSIVE MICROWAVES; SNOW DEPTHS; SNOW WATER EQUIVALENT; SSM/I;

ALGORITHMS; ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; LANDFORMS; SNOW; SNOW MELTING SYSTEMS; TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT;

LAKES;

ALGORITHM; AMSR-E; ARCTIC ENVIRONMENT; BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE; LAKE WATER; LAND COVER; LANDSAT; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SATELLITE DATA; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SNOW COVER; SNOW WATER EQUIVALENT; SSM-I; TUNDRA;

ALASKA; NORTH SLOPE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84867601861     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2012.09.008     Document Type: Article

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