Development of Global Snow Cover—Trends from 23 Years of Global SnowPack

• Published in: Earth
• Main Authors: Sebastian Roessler, Andreas Jürgen Dietz
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2022
• Subjects: snow cover; remote sensing; MODIS; Global SnowPack (GSP); trend analysis; Mann–Kendall (MK); Kendall; polar night
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.3390/earth4010001

Globally, the seasonal snow cover is the areal largest, the most short-lived and the most variable part of the cryosphere. Remote sensing proved to be a reliable tool to investigate their short-term variations worldwide. The medium-resolution sensor MODIS sensor has been delivering daily snow produc...