Remote sensing of snow–a review of available methods

AJ Dietz, C Kuenzer, U Gessner… - International Journal of …, 2012 - Taylor & Francis
The use of satellite remote sensing for the mapping of snow-cover characteristics has a long-
lasting history reaching back until the 1960s. Because snow cover plays an important role in …

A review of global satellite-derived snow products

A Frei, M Tedesco, S Lee, J Foster, DK Hall… - Advances in Space …, 2012 - Elsevier
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 …

[图书][B] Remote sensing of drought: Innovative monitoring approaches

BD Wardlow, MC Anderson, JP Verdin - 2012 - books.google.com
Remote Sensing of Drought: Innovative Monitoring Approaches presents emerging remote
sensing-based tools and techniques that can be applied to operational drought monitoring …

[HTML][HTML] Improving snow depth estimation by coupling HUT-optimized effective snow grain size parameters with the random forest approach

JW Yang, LM Jiang, J Lemmetyinen, JM Pan… - Remote Sensing of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Snow cover is highly critical for global water and energy cycles because of its wide areal
extent, high reflectivity and good thermal insulation. Knowledge of snow conditions, eg …

Mapping snow depth distribution from 1980 to 2020 on the tibetan plateau using multi-source remote sensing data and downscaling techniques

Y Ma, XD Huang, XL Yang, YX Li, YL Wang… - ISPRS Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Although passive microwave remote sensing has been widely used for snow depth (SD)
retrieval, its coarse spatial resolution has led to large uncertainties in various applications …

Factors affecting remotely sensed snow water equivalent uncertainty

J Dong, JP Walker, PR Houser - Remote sensing of environment, 2005 - Elsevier
State-of-the-art passive microwave remote sensing-based snow water equivalent (SWE)
algorithms correct for factors believed to most significantly affect retrieved SWE bias and …

A blended global snow product using visible, passive microwave and scatterometer satellite data

JL Foster, DK Hall, JB Eylander, GA Riggs… - … journal of remote …, 2011 - Taylor & Francis
A joint US Air Force/National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) blended global
snow product that uses Earth Observation System Moderate Resolution Imaging …

Are flat‐field snow depth measurements representative? A comparison of selected index sites with areal snow depth measurements at the small catchment scale

T Grünewald, M Lehning - Hydrological Processes, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Single or a limited number of point observations, such as from index stations, are commonly
assumed to be representative for the snow cover of larger areas in many applications. This …

Evaluating global snow water equivalent products for testing land surface models

S Hancock, R Baxter, J Evans, B Huntley - Remote sensing of environment, 2013 - Elsevier
This paper compares three global snow water equivalent (SWE) products, SSM/I (NSIDC),
AMSR-E (NSIDC) and Globsnow (v1. 0, ESA) to each other, snow covered area (SCA) …

Forward-looking assimilation of MODIS-derived snow-covered area into a land surface model

BF Zaitchik, M Rodell - Journal of hydrometeorology, 2009 - journals.ametsoc.org
Snow cover over land has a significant impact on the surface radiation budget, turbulent
energy fluxes to the atmosphere, and local hydrological fluxes. For this reason, inaccuracies …