Case study of spatial and temporal variability of snow cover, grain size, albedo and radiative forcing in the Sierra Nevada and Rocky Mountain snowpack derived from imaging spectroscopy

Cryosphere

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 1229-1244

  Seidel, Felix C ^a   Rittger, Karl ^b   McKenzie Skiles, S ^a   Molotch, Noah P ^a,b   Painter, Thomas H ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABLATION; ALBEDO; AVIRIS; ELEVATION; ENERGY BALANCE; GRAIN SIZE; IMAGING METHOD; RADIATIVE FORCING; SNOW COVER; SNOWMELT; SNOWPACK; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPATIAL VARIATION; SPECTROSCOPY; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

CALIFORNIA; COLORADO; ROCKY MOUNTAINS; SIERRA NEVADA [CALIFORNIA]; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84975093690     PISSN: 19940416     EISSN: 19940424     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/tc-10-1229-2016     Document Type: Article

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