Re-evaluation of MODIS MCD43 greenland albedo accuracy and trends

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 138, Issue , 2013, Pages 199-214

  Stroeve, Julienne ^a   Box, Jason E ^b   Wang, Zhuosen ^c   Schaaf, Crystal ^c   Barrett, Andrew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF DENMARK AND GREENLAND   (Denmark)

^c BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Greenland Ice Sheet; MODIS; Surface albedo

Indexed keywords

ABSORBED SOLAR RADIATIONS; AUTOMATIC WEATHER STATIONS; GREENLAND ICE SHEET; IN-SITU OBSERVATIONS; MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER; MODIS; ROOT-MEAN SQUARE ERRORS; SURFACE ALBEDO;

CLIMATE CHANGE; DATA FLOW ANALYSIS; GLACIERS; RADIOMETERS; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SUN;

SOLAR RADIATION;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ALBEDO; ANOMALY; AQUA (SATELLITE); CLIMATE CHANGE; DATA SET; ICE SHEET; IN SITU MEASUREMENT; MELTWATER; MODIS; SOLAR RADIATION; TERRA (SATELLITE); TREND ANALYSIS; ZENITH ANGLE;

ARCTIC; GREENLAND;

EID: 84882951354     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2013.07.023     Document Type: Article

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