Received date: 2012-12-24
Request revised date: 2013-04-07
Online published: 2013-06-13
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The climate change is indicated by wide changes of snow cover. Through its distinctive physical properties, snow plays an important role in the global ecological system not only by regulating the material and energy cycle between land and atmosphere, but also by influencing surface runoff and the hydrologic cycle. After researching and comparing a lot of literatures, we summarized the frequently used data sets. The NOAA data sets which have the longest time series in visible/near infrared data sets are widely applied in monitoring snow cover over the continents and providing the input to the climate and hydrological numerical simulations. With better spatial resolution(1km or better), MODIS data sets which have great potential in the snow extraction can derive the snow cover through NDSI, a normalized index between band 4 and band 6. Microwave data sets are able to penetrate clouds and to detect the information about snow depth and snow water equivalent easily. Scanning Multichannel Microwave Radiometer (SMMR) and Special Sensor Microwave/Imager (SSM/I) data sets are the earliest microwave products for snow monitoring, while the coarse spatial resolution of which limits their application. AMSR-E data sets improve the resolution (25 km) and are proven to be in good agreement with the measured values. To solve the problems existing in the single-source data sets, many researchers combine the advantages of different data sources and develop new algorithms to improve the accuracy and quality of the data sets. The synthesized data sets include the integrated datasets from model and observational data, the integration between observed data and remote sensing sensor, the combination between sensors and multi-source data sets. Among the above mentioned data sets, the combination between sensors, such as the combination between the MODIS and the AMSR-E, can enlarge the advantages (good spatial resolution of MODIS and anti-interference of AMSR-E) and overcome the shortcomings (MODIS is easily affected by cloud cover while AMSR-E has bad spatial resolution). After analyzing the theoretical underpinnings, the characteristics of key products, advantages and disadvantages of various data sets, this article concluded some problems existing in the snow datasets research and discussed the current and future directions in their application and development.
Key words: snow data sets; snow cover; snow water equivalent; snow depth; remote sensing
YU Ling-xue , ZHANG Shu-wen , BU Kun , YANG Jiu-chun , YAN Feng-qin , CHANG Li-ping . A Review on Snow Data Sets[J]. SCIENTIA GEOGRAPHICA SINICA, 2013 , 33(7) : 878 -883 . DOI: 10.13249/j.cnki.sgs.2013.07.878
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
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