Understanding past and future changes in northern Fennoscandian snow cover.

• Main Author: Vignols, Rebecca Marianne
• Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: Newnham College 2020
• Subjects: snow; climate change; arctic; snow cover; remote sensing; climate modelling; regional climate modelling; polar; northern fennoscandia; MODIS; Khibiny; Khibiny Mountains; Murmansk Oblast; WRF; Weather Research and Forecasting model; ground truthing; sensitivity study; model validation; ERA-Interim; field work; British Antarctic Survey; Scott Polar Research Institute; Kola Peninsula; Antarctic; Arctic; Murmansk; Antarc*; Climate change; Fennoscandia; Fennoscandian; kola peninsula
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.49927; https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/302853

In this project, a combination of field measurements, remote sensing data and regional climate model outputs were used to study recent and projected future changes in Northern Fennoscandian snow cover. The research questions considered in this thesis are: What are the uncertainties in remote sensing...