Linking glacier annual mass balance and glacier albedo retrieved from MODIS data

Cryosphere

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1527-1539

  Dumont, M ^a,c   Gardelle, J ^a   Sirguey, P ^b   Guillot, A ^a   Six, D ^a   Rabatel, A ^a   Arnaud, Y ^a  

^a UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^c Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABLATION; ACCUMULATION; ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ALBEDO; ANISOTROPY; ANNUAL VARIATION; AQUA (SATELLITE); CRYOSPHERE; DATA SET; GLACIER MASS BALANCE; MODIS; PHOTOGRAPH; SATELLITE DATA; SATELLITE IMAGERY; TERRA (SATELLITE); TIME SERIES;

ALPS; FRANCE; GRAUBUNDEN; MORTERATSCH GLACIER; RHONE-ALPES; SAINT SORLIN GLACIER; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 84873896430     PISSN: 19940416     EISSN: 19940424     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/tc-6-1527-2012     Document Type: Article

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