Abstract: Monthly mean diurnal cycles (MDCs) of surface temperatures over land, represented in 3-h universal time intervals, have been analyzed. Satellite near-global data from the International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project ...

Abstract: Current National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) operational global- and continental-scale snow cover maps are produced interactively by visual analysis of satellite imagery. This snow product is subjective, ...

Abstract: Global mapped data of reflected radiation in the visible (0.63 ?m) and near-infrared (0.85 ?m) wavebands of the Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) onboard National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ...

Abstract: A large number of water- and climate-related applications, such as drought monitoring, are based on spaceborne-derived relationships between land surface temperature (LST) and the normalized difference vegetation index ...