Investigating the feasibility of the globsnow snow water equivalent data for climate research purposes
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Luojus, K.; Pulliainen, J.; Takala, M.; Derksen, C.; Rott, H.; Nagler, T.; Solberg, R.; Wiesmann, A.; Metsamaki, S.; Malnes, E.; Bojkov, B.
- Source
- 2010 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), 2010 IEEE International. :4851-4853 2010
- Subject
- Geoscience
Signal Processing and Analysis
Power, Energy and Industry Applications
Components, Circuits, Devices and Systems
Engineered Materials, Dielectrics and Plasmas
Fields, Waves and Electromagnetics
Decision support systems
Snow Water Equivalent
Snow Extent
Snow Cover
Essential Climate Variable (ESV)
- Language
- ISSN
- 2153-6996
2153-7003
This paper presents the efforts for creating two global scale snow dataset covering 15 and 30 years of satellite-based observations, one describing the extent of snow cover (SE) the other describing the snow water equivalent (SWE) characteristics. The main emphasis of the paper is describing the validation work carried out for the SWE product that will cover the non-mountainous regions of Northern Hemisphere on a daily basis starting from 1979. The work has been carried out within the ESA Globsnow project.