Using air temperature to quantitatively predict the MODIS fractional snow cover retrieval errors over the continental United States

Journal of Hydrometeorology

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 551-562

  Dong, Jiarui ^a,b   Ek, Mike ^a   Hall, Dorothy ^c   Peters Lidard, Christa ^c   Cosgrove, Brian ^a   Miller, Jeff ^c,d   Riggs, George ^c,e   Xia, Youlong ^a  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b IM Systems Group   (United States)

^c NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^d WYLE LABORATORIES   (United States)

^e SCIENCE SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; ERROR ANALYSIS; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; MODIS; REMOTE SENSING; SNOW COVER; SNOW WATER EQUIVALENT;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 84897997549     PISSN: 1525755X     EISSN: 15257541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JHM-D-13-060.1     Document Type: Article

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