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MODIS-based Mosaic of Antarctica (MOA) data sets: Continent-wide surface morphology and snow grain size

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In this article, the authors presented digital image mosaics of surface morphology and optical snow grain size for the Antarctic continent and surrounding islands, assembled from 260 Moderate-resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) images.
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This article is published in Remote Sensing of Environment.The article was published on 2007-11-30. It has received 422 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Snow & National Snow and Ice Data Center.

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A reconciled estimate of ice-sheet mass balance

TL;DR: There is good agreement between different satellite methods—especially in Greenland and West Antarctica—and that combining satellite data sets leads to greater certainty, and the mass balance of Earth’s polar ice sheets is estimated by combining the results of existing independent techniques.
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Ice-Shelf Melting Around Antarctica

TL;DR: Detailed glaciological estimates of ice-shelf melting around the entire continent of Antarctica show that basal melting accounts for as much mass loss as does calving, making ice- shelf melting the largest ablation process in Antarctica.
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Volume loss from Antarctic ice shelves is accelerating

TL;DR: Satellite data is presented showing that ice shelves in many regions around the edge of Antarctica are losing mass, which increases concern about how fast sea level might rise as climate continues to warm.
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Retrieval of subpixel snow covered area, grain size, and albedo from MODIS

TL;DR: In this article, a model that retrieves fractional snow-covered area and the grain size and albedo of that snow from surface reflectance data (product MOD09GA) acquired by NASA's Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) is presented.
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SBDART: A Research and Teaching Software Tool for Plane-Parallel Radiative Transfer in the Earth's Atmosphere.

TL;DR: The code is a marriage of a sophisticated discrete ordinate radiative transfer module, low-resolution atmospheric transmission models, and Mie scattering results for light scattering by water droplets and ice crystals that are well suited for a wide variety of atmospheric radiative energy balance and remote sensing studies.
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Optical Properties of Snow

TL;DR: In this paper, the dependence of snow albedo on wavelength, zenith angle, grain size, impurity content, and cloud cover can be interpreted in terms of single scattering and multiple scattering radiative transfer theory.
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Reflectance quantities in optical remote sensing - definitions and case studies

TL;DR: A review of reflectance nomenclature used in remote sensing can be found in this paper, where the authors highlight the importance of a proper usage of definitions through quantitative comparison of different reflectance products with special emphasis on wavelength dependent effects.
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