MODIS Land Surface Temperature as an index of surface air temperature for operational snowpack estimation

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 152, Issue , 2014, Pages 83-98

  Shamir, Eylon ^a   Georgakakos, Konstantine P ^a,b  

^a HYDROLOGIC RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Land surface temperature; MODIS LST; Snow 17; Snow pack; Surface air temperature

Indexed keywords

FLOODS; GAGES; INTERPOLATION; RADIOMETERS; SNOW; SNOW MELTING SYSTEMS; TIME SERIES;

LAND SURFACE TEMPERATURE; MODIS LST; MOUNTAINOUS AREA; OPERATIONAL MODEL; SNOW PACKS; SNOW WATER EQUIVALENT; SURFACE AIR TEMPERATURES; TELEMETRIC DATA;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

AIR TEMPERATURE; DATA SET; ESTIMATION METHOD; FLASH FLOOD; LAND SURFACE; MAGNITUDE; MODIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; SNOWPACK; SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SNOW WATER EQUIVALENT;

TURKEY;

EID: 84902970267     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2014.06.001     Document Type: Article

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