Articles | Volume 15, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-15-835-2021
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-15-835-2021
Research article
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18 Feb 2021
Research article |  | 18 Feb 2021

Estimating fractional snow cover from passive microwave brightness temperature data using MODIS snow cover product over North America

Xiongxin Xiao, Shunlin Liang, Tao He, Daiqiang Wu, Congyuan Pei, and Jianya Gong

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Daily time series and full space-covered sub-pixel snow cover area data are urgently needed for climate and reanalysis studies. Due to the fact that observations from optical satellite sensors are affected by clouds, this study attempts to capture dynamic characteristics of snow cover at a fine spatiotemporal resolution (daily; 6.25 km) accurately by using passive microwave data. We demonstrate the potential to use the passive microwave and the MODIS data to map the fractional snow cover area.