Shifting mountain snow patterns in a changing climate from remote sensing retrieval

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 493, Issue , 2014, Pages 1267-1279

  Dedieu, J P ^a   Lessard Fontaine, A ^a   Ravazzani, G ^b   Cremonese, E ^c   Shalpykova, G ^d   Beniston, M ^e  

^a UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^b POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

^c Aosta Hospital   (Italy)

^d Institute of Water Problems and Hydropower (IWPH)   (Kyrgyzstan)

^e UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Mountain hydrology; Remote sensing; Snow modeling

Indexed keywords

CHANGING CLIMATE; MOUNTAIN HYDROLOGY; SNOW MODELS; SNOW PATTERNS;

REMOTE SENSING;

SNOW;

CLIMATE CHANGE; MODIS; MOUNTAIN REGION; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SNOW COVER; SNOWPACK;

ARTICLE; ASIA; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EUROPE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GEOGRAPHIC MAPPING; HYDROLOGY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; REMOTE SENSING; RIVER BASIN; SNOW COVER; WATERSHED;

ITALY; KYRGYZSTAN; PO RIVER; RHONE RIVER; SYR DARYA RIVER;

EID: 84904856723     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2014.04.078     Document Type: Article

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