A review of global satellite-derived snow products |
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| Authors: | Allan Frei Marco Tedesco Shihyan Lee James Foster Dorothy K Hall Richard Kelly David A Robinson |
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| Institution: | 1. Department of Geography, Hunter College Rm. 1006N, City University of New York, 695 Park Avenue, New York, NY 10065, USA;2. Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, City College, City University of New York, NY 10031, USA;3. Sigma Space Corporation, 4600 Forbes Blvd., Lanham, MD 20706, USA;4. Hydrospheric and Biospheric Sciences Laboratory (Code 617.0), NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA;5. Department of Geography & Environmental Management, University of Waterloo, 200 University Avenue, West Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L 3G1;6. Department of Geography, Rutgers University, 54 Joyce Kilmer Avenue, Piscataway, NJ 08854-8054, USA |
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| Abstract: | 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. While many of these variations are associated with exchanges of energy and mass between the land surface and the atmosphere, other expected changes are likely to propagate downstream and affect oceanic processes in coastal zones. For example, a large component of the freshwater flux into the Arctic Ocean comes from snow melt. The timing and magnitude of this flux affects biological and thermodynamic processes in the Arctic Ocean, and potentially across the globe through their impact on North Atlantic Deep Water formation. |
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| Keywords: | Snow Remote sensing |
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