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Showing 1 to 20 of 87 for “"snow cover"”.
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MONITORING OF NORTH AMERICAN SNOW COVER AND ENSO EFFECTS
This study was conducted to monitor the Snow Cover Area (SCA) and to evaluate the effects of El Nino and La Nina on SCA in North America (Excluding Greenland) since 2000/2001 to 2010. The NASA ((National Aeronautics and Space Administration) Earth Observing System Moderate Resolution Imaging …
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Understanding past and future changes in northern Fennoscandian snow cover.
… future changes in Northern Fennoscandian snow cover. The research questions considered in this thesis are: What are the uncertainties in remote sensing and climate modelling datasets used in snow studies? How has snow cover been changing since the 1960s and how will it change over the next …
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Exploring light transmission through ice-snow cover and water in lakes
… importance becomes even more critical during ice-covered periods when external forces, like wind, are inhibited by the ice-snow cover. Despite this, a fraction of solar radiation can still penetrate the ice and snow, becoming the main external source of energy. This radiative heating destabilizes …
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Linkages between Eurasian snow cover and Northern Hemisphere winter-time climate variability
Recently it has been shown that the Eurasian snow cover in the prior autumn (ESCSON) and the leading mode variability in the wintertime extratropical Northern Hemisphere (NH) atmospheric circulation have significant correlation. In this study, a linkage between the ESCSON and the following …
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Eurasian Snow Cover and the Role of Linear Interference in Stratosphere-troposphere Interactions
… of the observed connection between autumn snow cover anomalies over Eurasia and the wintertime Northern Annular Mode (NAM). In general circulation model (GCM) simulations with prescribed autumn Siberian snow forcing, a vertically propagating Rossby wave train is generated, driving dynamical …
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Direct and inverse scattering models for electromagnetic remote sensing of time-varying sea ice and snow cover
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1998.
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Implementation of a snow routine into the hydrological model WASA-SED and its validation in a mountainous catchment
In many regions of the world, snow accumulation and melt constitute important components of the hydrologic cycle. With the objective to improve model performance of the hydrological model WASA-SED (Water Availability in Semi-Arid environments - SEDiments) in catchments affected by snow and ice, a …
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Air-ground temperature exchange
… a seasonal to inter-annual time scale, including snow cover duration, latent energy of ground freezing, daily sunlight, precipitation, and vegetation. </p><p>Continual records of surface air and near-surface ground temperatures from five sites in North Dakota show similar trends in seasonal …
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Hydrological modeling of mountain catchments in Central Asia
… investigated the value of satellite-derived snow cover data for model calibration. Trade-offs of good model performance in terms of discharge and snow cover were explicitly evaluated using a multiobjective optimization algorithm, and the results were contrasted with single-objective …
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Design and development of a novel DC/DC bidirectional converter with dual solar/PV-based snow removal and EV charging functionality
… system. One of these factors is the effect of snow cover on PV panels, a subject lacking sufficient academic research. This thesis reviews current research for snow removal in solar PV modules and power electronic circuit topologies used. Additionally, it presents the design, analysis and …
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Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Snow-Free Frost Exposure in the Western Cordillera Seasonal Snow Zones
… ecosystems of the Western Cordillera, seasonal snowpack provides insulation for soils and vegetation against freezing temperatures. While temperatures are warming overall, concurrent declines in snowpack are removing this protective thermal blanket. This may lead to events where the ground …
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Development and Application of a MODIS Snowmelt Model for Northwestern Montana
… Development and Application of a MODIS Driven Snowmelt Model in Northwestern Montana Chairperson: Joel T. Harper In the mountain west the timing of the spring snowmelt pulse has considerable impact on water resources and ecological processes such as fire. A forward shift of this timing due to …
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Development and Application of a MODIS Snowmelt Model for Northwestern Montana
… Development and Application of a MODIS Driven Snowmelt Model in Northwestern Montana Chairperson: Joel T. Harper In the mountain west the timing of the spring snowmelt pulse has considerable impact on water resources and ecological processes such as fire. A forward shift of this timing due to …
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Real-time rendering and simulation of trees and snow
… GPU enhanced tessellation engine. A real-time snow accumulation system is developed to generate snow cover on a dynamic, animated scene. Occlusion techniques are used to project snow accumulating faces and map exposed areas to applied accumulation maps in the form of dynamic textures. …
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Estimation de la superficie du couvert nival à partir d'une combinaison des données de télédétection MODIS et AMSR-E dans un contexte de prévision des crues printanières au Québec
Snow cover estimation is a principal source of error for spring streamflow simulations in Québec, Canada. Optical and near infrared remote sensing can improve snow cover area (SCA) estimation due to high spatial resolution but is limited by cloud cover and incoming solar radiation. Passive …
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