Snow cover
The role of snow cover and soil freeze/thaw cycles affecting boreal-arctic soil carbon dynamics
... that snow state changes can explain 50 % or more of soil temperature trends at 1 m depth over the recent 50 year record (Lawrence and Slater, ...changing snow cover duration on soil temperatures may ...
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Snow-cover reconstruction methodology for mountainous regions based on historic in situ observations and recent remote sensing data
... difference snow index (NDSI) algorithm (Hall et ...MODIS snow-cover data is the limitation due to cloud ...cloud cover or even removing it completely ...MODIS snow-cover data to ...
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MODIS snow cover mapping accuracy in a small mountain catchment – comparison between open and forest sites
... overestimate snow cover extent in the evergreen ...a snow routine of an operational flood forecasting model in the alpine part of the Danube river and reported a tendency of MODIS to map more ...
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Variability in snow cover phenology in China from 1952 to 2010
... in snow accumulation in winter but a shorter snowmelt season over Eurasia (Bulygina et ...the snow cover over northwest China exhibited a weak upward trend ...
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The effects of additional black carbon on Arctic sea ice surface albedo: variation with sea ice type and snow cover
... To establish the extent to which a snow cover will mitigate the albedo e ff ect of black carbon in sea ice two di ff erent Arctic snow types (also described by Grenfell and Maykut, 1977)[r] ...
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Spatial sensitivity analysis of snow cover data in a distributed rainfall-runoff model
... is snow cover. Snow cover fraction (SCF [-]) or snow water equivalent remote sensing products are widely available from a number of sen- ...sensing snow prod- ucts comes from the ...
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Winter stream temperature in the rain-on-snow zone of the Pacific Northwest: influences of hillslope runoff and transient snow cover
... transient snow cover on stream temperature over 13 win- ters. When snow was not present, daily stream temperature during winter rain events tended to increase with increasing air ...when snow ...
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Estimating spatial distribution of daily snow depth with kriging methods: combination of MODIS snow cover area data and ground-based observations
... (MODIS) snow cover area (SCA) products. The scheme uses snow-free pixels in MODIS SCA images with clouds removed to identify virtual stations, or areas with zero snow depth, to compensate for ...
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Growth response of temperate mountain grasslands to inter-annual variations of snow cover duration
... proxies of productivity in alpine grasslands was primarily governed by variations in the length of the snow-free period. As a consequence, meteorological variables controlling snow cover dynamics are ...
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ANALYSIS OF SPATIAL-TEMPORAL VARIATION OF LAND SURFACE TEMPERATURE, VEGETATION AND SNOW COVER IN LAR NATIONAL PARK OF IRAN
... land cover map is acquired from the Iran Department of ...Difference Snow Index (NDSI) are computed for all dates using all surface reflectance bands (Table ...addition, snow and water covered areas ...
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Observed high-altitude warming and snow cover retreat over Tibet and the Himalayas enhanced by black carbon aerosols
... W.: Snow cover sensitivity to black car- bon deposition in the Himalayas: from atmospheric and ice core measurements to regional climate simulations, ...
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Snow cover data derived from MODIS for water balance applications
... (no snow cover in time series) and last for several days without snow ...a snow melt period where five continuous land cover records are used for the threshold (snow melt) day ...
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Application of MODIS snow cover products: wildfire impacts on snow and melt in the Sierra Nevada
... in snow after a large forest fire in north- ern California using Moderate Resolution Imaging Spec- troradiometer (MODIS) snow-covered area and grain size ...fractional snow-covered area and MODSCAG ...
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Biogeophysical impacts of peatland forestation on regional climate changes in Finland
... ing snow-cover periods, due to decreased surface albedo, and cooling in summertime from increased evapotranspiration (ET) in tropical areas with sufficient soil ...
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Hydrological system analysis and modelling of the Nam Co basin in Tibet
... melting snow during the summer season, whereas less precipitation and retention of water in ice and snow cover indicated a lower input which led to a 10 cm lake level decrease in ...
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A regional climate model hindcast for Siberia – assessing the added value of snow water equivalent using ESA GlobSnow and reanalyses
... and snow cover extent plays an important role for the surface energy balance via the ...and snow cover extent with more realistic detail than provided by reanalyses due to its own model ...
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Inferring snow pack ripening and melt out from distributed ground surface temperature measurements
... insulating snow cover during winter, few locations clearly show the absence of it, and some appear to lie in ...a snow cover, that then may be thin and provide little insulation, is more ...
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Parameterization of atmosphere–surface exchange of CO<sub>2</sub> over sea ice
... molecular gradient-diffusion flux at the surface. This also im- plies that fluxes measured using micrometeorological tech- niques (Businger, 1986; Businger and Delany, 1990; Fowler and Duyzer, 1989) at heights above the ...
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What drives basin scale spatial variability of snowpack properties in northern Colorado?
... persistent snow cover near peak snow accumulation; this region is responsible for the majority of hydrologic input to the river ...the Snow Cover Index (SCI) at 50 % (Richer et ...was ...
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Accuracy of snow depth estimation in mountain and prairie environments by an unmanned aerial vehicle
... a snow-covered depletion curve for the prairie site is presented in ...into snow and non-snow classes quantifies the earlier exposure of the tall wheat stubble rela- tive to the short wheat ...as ...
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