Detection of earlier snowmelt in the wind river range, wyoming, using landsat imagery, 1972-2013

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 162, Issue , 2015, Pages 45-54

  Hall, Dorothy K ^a   Crawford, Christopher J ^b   DiGirolamo, Nicolo E ^c   Riggs, George A ^c   Foster, James L ^a  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b OAK RIDGE ASSOCIATED UNIVERSITIES   (United States)

^c SCIENCE SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Landsat; MODIS; Snow cover depletion curves; Snowmelt; Wind River Range

Indexed keywords

DROUGHT; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; LAKES; MELTING; RADIOMETERS; RIVERS; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SNOW MELTING SYSTEMS; STREAM FLOW; SURFACE WATER RESOURCES; WATER RESOURCES;

LANDSAT; MODIS; SNOW COVER DEPLETION CURVES; SNOWMELT; WIND RIVER;

SNOW;

AIR TEMPERATURE; DATA SET; DROUGHT STRESS; LANDSAT; MELTING; MODIS; SNOW COVER; SNOWMELT; STREAMFLOW;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTHWEST); ROCKY MOUNTAINS; UNITED STATES; WIND RIVER RANGE; WYOMING;

EID: 84923619971     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2015.01.032     Document Type: Article

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