James L. Foster

TL;DR: In this article, the authors compared the accuracy of the three products, namely, SMMR, NOAA/NESDIS and USAFGWC, and concluded that the results of the comparisons are good for uniform snow covered areas, such as the Canadian high plains and the Russian steppes.

TL;DR: A methodologically simple approach to estimate snow depth from spaceborne microwave instruments is described and will be developed further and implemented for use with the Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer-Earth Observing System aboard Aqua.

TL;DR: In this paper, a time-evolving retrieval algorithm that considers the evolution of snow crystals is formulated, and an error model is developed based on the standard error estimation theory, which is applied to the passive microwave data from Special Sensor Microwave/Imager (SSM/I) during 1990-1991 snow season to produce annotated error maps for North America.

TL;DR: In this article, the theoretical underpinnings and characteristics of three key global remotely sensed products are reviewed, and the seasonal and spatial patterns of agreement and disagreement among them are discussed, and current and future directions in their application and development.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors developed separate passive microwave snow algorithms for North America and Eurasia by including parameters that consider the effects of variations in forest cover and crystal size on microwave brightness temperature.