AMSR‐E algorithm for snowmelt onset detection in sub‐arctic heterogeneous terrain

• Published in: Hydrological Processes
• Main Authors: Apgar, Jeremy D., Ramage, Joan M., McKenney, Rose A., Maltais, Patrick
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2007
• Subjects: Arctic; Canada; Wheaton River; Yukon; Subarctic; Yukon river
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/hyp.6721; https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1002%2Fhyp.6721; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/hyp.6721

Abstract The onset of snowmelt in the upper Yukon River basin, Canada, can be derived from brightness temperatures ( T b ) obtained by the Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer for EOS (AMSR‐E) on NASA's Aqua satellite. This sensor, with a resolution of 14 × 8 km 2 for the 36·5 GHz frequency,...