Changes in Andes snow cover from MODIS data, 2000–2016

• Published in: The Cryosphere
• Main Authors: Saavedra, Freddy A., Kampf, Stephanie K., Fassnacht, Steven R., Sibold, Jason S.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Copernicus Publications 2018
• Subjects: article; Verlagsveröffentlichung; Kendall; Pacific; The Cryosphere
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-12-1027-2018; https://noa.gwlb.de/receive/cop_mods_00006946; https://noa.gwlb.de/servlets/MCRFileNodeServlet/cop_derivate_00006903/tc-12-1027-2018.pdf; https://tc.copernicus.org/articles/12/1027/2018/tc-12-1027-2018.pdf

The Andes span a length of 7000 km and are important for sustaining regional water supplies. Snow variability across this region has not been studied in detail due to sparse and unevenly distributed instrumental climate data. We calculated snow persistence (SP) as the fraction of time with snow cove...