Detection thresholds of falling snow from satellite-borne active and passive sensors

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 51, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 4177-4189

  Skofronick Jackson, Gail M ^a   Johnson, Benjamin T ^b   Munchak, S Joseph ^c  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Clouds; Earth; remote sensing; water resources

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC WATER; CLOUD-RESOLVING MODEL SIMULATIONS; DETECTION THRESHOLD; DUAL-FREQUENCY PRECIPITATION RADARS; EARTH'S SURFACE; GLOBAL ESTIMATE; GLOBAL PRECIPITATION MEASUREMENTS; GPM MICROWAVE IMAGER;

CLOUDS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EARTH (PLANET); LAKES; METEOROLOGICAL RADAR; RADAR MEASUREMENT; REMOTE SENSING; SENSORS; TRACKING RADAR; WATER RESOURCES;

SNOW;

ALGORITHM; CLOUD COVER; DETECTION METHOD; HYDROLOGICAL CYCLE; NUMERICAL MODEL; RADAR; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SENSOR; SNOWPACK; THRESHOLD; WATER RESOURCE;

EID: 84880291689     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2012.2227763     Document Type: Article

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