Neither dust nor black carbon causing apparent albedo decline in Greenland's dry snow zone: Implications for MODIS C5 surface reflectance

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 42, Issue 21, 2015, Pages 9319-9327

  Polashenski, Chris M ^a,b   Dibb, Jack E ^c   Flanner, Mark G ^d   Chen, Justin Y ^e   Courville, Zoe R ^a,b   Lai, Alexandra M ^f   Schauer, James J ^f   Shafer, Martin M ^f   Bergin, Mike ^g  

^a USACE CRREL   (United States)

^b DARTMOUTH COLLEGE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^e aGEISEL SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT DARTMOUTH   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^g Duke University   (United States)

Author keywords

albedo; black carbon; degradation; dust; Greenland; MODIS

Indexed keywords

DEGRADATION; DUST; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; RADIOMETERS; REFLECTION; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SNOW;

ALBEDO; BLACK CARBON; DUST CONCENTRATIONS; GREENLAND; GREENLAND ICE SHEET; MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER; MODIS; SURFACE REFLECTANCE;

SOLAR RADIATION;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ALBEDO; BLACK CARBON; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DEGRADATION; DUST; MODIS; REMOTE SENSING; SENSOR; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SURFACE REFLECTANCE; TERRA (SATELLITE);

ARCTIC; GREENLAND; GREENLAND ICE SHEET;

EID: 84955209371     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2015GL065912     Document Type: Article

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