Snow and ice products from Suomi NPP VIIRS

Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Volumn 118, Issue 23, 2013, Pages 12,816-12,830

  Key, Jeffrey R ^a   Mahoney, Robert ^b   Liu, Yinghui ^c   Romanov, Peter ^d   Tschudi, Mark ^e   Appel, Igor ^f   Maslanik, James ^e   Baldwin, Dan ^e   Wang, Xuanji ^c   Meade, Paul ^g  

^a OFFICE OF RESEARCH AND APPLICATIONS   (United States)

^b NORTHROP GRUMMAN CORPORATION   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^d CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^e University of Colorado at Boulder   (United States)

^f IMSG   (United States)

^g Computational Physics Inc ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

cryosphere; ice; NPP; satellite; snow; VIIRS

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED VERY HIGH RESOLUTION RADIOMETERS (AVHRR); ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CHARACTERIZATION; ICE; NASA; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SATELLITES; SEA ICE; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

CRYOSPHERE; EARTH OBSERVING SYSTEMS; MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER; NPP; OPERATIONAL APPLICATIONS; ROOT-MEAN SQUARE ERRORS; VIIRS; VISIBLE-INFRARED IMAGER-RADIOMETER SUITES;

SNOW;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DATA SET; ERROR ANALYSIS; MODIS; PRECISION; RADIOMETER; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SEA ICE; SNOW COVER; SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84891276486     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21698996     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2013JD020459     Document Type: Article

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