Identifying changing snow cover characteristics in central Asia between 1986 and 2014 from remote sensing data

Remote Sensing

Volumn 6, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 12752-12775

  Dietz, Andreas J ^a   Conrad, Christopher ^b   Kuenzer, Claudia ^a   Gesell, Gerhard ^a   Dech, Stefan ^a  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Amu Darya; AVHRR; Central Asia; Climate change; MODIS; Pamir; Snow; Snow cover; Snow cover duration; Syr Darya; Tian Shan

Indexed keywords

EID: 84920091518     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs61212752     Document Type: Article

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