Spatio-temporal change of snow cover and its response to climate over the tibetan plateau based on an improved daily cloud-free snow cover product

Remote Sensing

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 169-194

  Wang, Wei ^a,b   Huang, Xiaodong ^a   Deng, Jie ^a   Xie, Hongjie ^a,c   Liang, Tiangang ^a  

^a LANZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NATIONAL CLIMATE CENTER   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; MODIS; Snow cover; Tibetan Plateau

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; RADIOMETERS;

CLASSIFICATION ACCURACY; HIGHER RESOLUTION; MODIS; SNOW COVERS; SNOW-COVER DYNAMICS; SNOW-COVER PRODUCTS; SPATIO-TEMPORAL CHANGES; TIBETAN PLATEAU;

SNOW;

EID: 84987971113     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs7010169     Document Type: Article

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