Impact of climate and elevation on snow cover using integrated remote sensing snow products in Tibetan Plateau

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 190, Issue , 2017, Pages 274-288

  Huang, Xiaodong ^a   Deng, Jie ^a   Wang, Wei ^b   Feng, Qisheng ^a   Liang, Tiangang ^a  

^a LANZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NATIONAL CLIMATE CENTER   (China)

Author keywords

Climate; Snow; Snow covered day; Snow water equivalent; Tibetan Plateau

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; RAIN; REMOTE SENSING;

CLIMATE; HIGH ELEVATION; POSITIVE FEEDBACK EFFECTS; SNOW COVERED AREA; SNOW WATER EQUIVALENT; SNOW-COVER PRODUCTS; SYSTEMATIC ANALYSIS; TIBETAN PLATEAU;

SNOW;

AMSR-E; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; ELEVATION; MODIS; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; REMOTE SENSING; SNOW; SNOW COVER; SNOW WATER EQUIVALENT; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

CHINA; QINGHAI-XIZANG PLATEAU;

EID: 85008953589     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2016.12.028     Document Type: Article

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