Abstract We describe the Northern Hemisphere terrestrial snow water equivalent (SWE) time
series covering 1979–2018, containing daily, monthly and monthly bias-corrected SWE …

The key variable describing global seasonal snow cover is snow water equivalent (SWE).
However, reliable information on the hemispheric scale variability of SWE is lacking …

On December 18, 1999, the Terra satellite was launched with a complement of five
instruments including the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS). Many …

A methodologically simple approach to estimate snow depth from spaceborne microwave
instruments is described. The scattering signal observed in multifrequency passive …

Many advances in spaceborne instrumentation, remote sensing, and data analysis have
occurred in recent years, but until now there has been no book that reflects these advances …

Passive microwave sensors (PM) onboard satellites have the capability to provide global
snow observations which are not affected by cloudiness and night condition (except when …

A prototype algorithm for hemispheric scale detection of autumn soil freezing using space-
borne L-band passive microwave observations is presented. The methodology is based on …

The landscape freeze-thaw (F/T) state parameter derived from satellite microwave remote
sensing is closely linked to the surface energy budget, hydrological activity, vegetation …

Snow properties have been retrieved from satellite data for many decades. While snow
extent is generally felt to be obtained reliably from visible-band data, there is less confidence …

A snow-cover mapping method accounting for forests (SnowFrac) is presented. SnowFrac
uses spectral unmixing and endmember constraints to estimate the snow-cover fraction of a …