Snow Cover in the Three Stable Snow Cover Areas of China and Spatio-Temporal Patterns of the Future

Spatio-temporal analysis of snow cover in Iran based on topographic characteristics

Spatial-temporal Patterns of Snow Cover in Western Canada

Snow cover is often measured as snow water equivalent (SWE), which refers to the amount of water stored in a snow-pack that would be available upon melting. Snow cover and SWE represent the source of local snow melt release, and are sensitive to regional and global atmospheric circulation, and changes in climate. Monitoring SWE using satellite-based passive microwave radiometry has provided nea...

Snow Cover

Snow cover is a layer of snow on the earth’s surface, which is mainly results from snowfalls. The snow cover can be temporary, when a snow melts during several hours or days after its formation, and it can be stable, when it remains for the whole winter or with short interruptions. The snow cover formation on the globe is determined (conditioned) by the geographical zonality, surface relief, an...

Spatio-Temporal Change of Snow Cover and Its Response to Climate over the Tibetan Plateau Based on an Improved Daily Cloud-Free Snow Cover Product

Using new, daily cloud-free snow-cover products, this study examines snow cover dynamics and their response to climate change. The results demonstrate that the daily cloud-free snow-cover products not only posses the advantages of the AMSR-E (unaffected by weather conditions) and MODIS (relatively higher resolution) products, but are also characterized by high snow and overall classification ac...

Mapping Snow Cover in Alpine Areas with Envisat/sar Images

RESUME It has been established that optical and near-infrared sensors can monitor the seasonal variations of snow cover in alpine areas in cloud free conditions. However, only microwave sensors are able to acquire data independently of day light and in adverse weather conditions. The effects of dry snow on currently available C-band SAR data are rather small and difficult to detect. On the cont...