Snow cover over the Northern Hemisphere plays a crucial role in the Earth's hydrology and
surface energy balance, and modulates feedbacks that control variations of global climate …

It is well established that the Earth's climate system has warmed significantly over the past
several decades, and in association there have been widespread changes in various other …

The cryosphere is defined by the presence of frozen water in its many forms: glaciers, ice
caps, ice sheets, snow, permafrost, and river and lake ice. In the extended Hindu Kush …

Accurate areal measurements of snow cover extent are important for hydrological and
climate modeling. The traditional method of mapping snow cover is binary where a pixel is …

Snow is a dominant water resource in high-mountain Asia (HMA) and crucial for mountain
communities and downstream populations. Snow cover monitoring is significant to …

This is the first textbook to consider all aspects of the cryosphere system in the context of
global environmental change driven by human activity and climate. Considers all six aspects …

The physical properties of a snowpack strongly influence the emissions from the substratum,
making snow property retrievals feasible by means of the surface brightness temperature …

In forest headwater streams, metabolic processes are predominately heterotrophic and
depend on both the availability of carbon (C) and nitrogen (N) and a favourable C: N …

The warming climate of the Arctic affects the mass budget of glaciers, and changes in the
distribution of glacier facies are indicative of their response to climate change. The glacial …

ABSTRACT The daily snow cover data from Interactive Multisensor Snow and Ice Mapping
System (IMS) by National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's National Environmental …