The superiority of the Adjusted Normalized Difference Snow Index (ANDSI) for mapping glaciers using Sentinel-2 multispectral satellite imagery

B Mohammadi, P Pilesjö, Z Duan - GIScience & Remote Sensing, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Accurate monitoring of glaciers' extents and their dynamics is essential for improving our
understanding of the impacts of climate and environmental changes in cold regions. The …

Mass wasting susceptibility assessment of snow avalanches using machine learning models

B Choubin, M Borji, FS Hosseini, A Mosavi… - Scientific reports, 2020 - nature.com
Snow avalanche is among the most harmful natural hazards with major socioeconomic and
environmental destruction in the cold and mountainous regions. The devastating …

Landsat satellites observed dynamics of snowline altitude at the end of the melting season, Himalayas, 1991–2022

J Wang, Z Tang, G Deng, G Hu, Y You, Y Zhao - Remote Sensing, 2023 - mdpi.com
Studying the dynamics of snowline altitude at the end of the melting season (SLA-EMS) is
beneficial in predicting future trends of glaciers and non-seasonal snow cover and in …

Snow cover area analysis and its relation with climate variability in Chandra basin, Western Himalaya, during 2001–2017 using MODIS and ERA5 data

R Sahu, RD Gupta - Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, 2020 - Springer
Glaciers and snow cover area (SCA) plays an important role in river runoff in Himalayan
region. There is a need to monitor SCA on spatio-temporal basis for better and efficient …

Spatio-temporal snow cover change in the early twenty-first century using improved MODIS dataset: a case study of District Hunza, Pakistan

MFU Moazzam, G Rahman, KS Ali, BG Lee - Climate Dynamics, 2023 - Springer
Climate change has a massive influence on cryosphere around the globe, particularly in the
Hindukush, Karakoram, and Himalayan (HKH) region which is jeopardizing water resources …

Comparison of three different random forest approaches to retrieve daily high-resolution snow cover maps from MODIS and Sentinel-2 in a Mountain Area, Gran …

C Richiardi, C Siniscalco, M Adamo - Remote Sensing, 2023 - mdpi.com
In the Alpine environment, snow plays a key role in many processes involving ecosystems,
biogeochemical cycles, and human wellbeing. Due to the inaccessibility of mountain areas …

Enhanced scaling effects significantly lower the ability of MODIS normalized difference snow index to estimate fractional and binary snow cover on the Tibetan Plateau

H Zhang, F Zhang, G Zhang, W Yan, S Li - Journal of Hydrology, 2021 - Elsevier
MODIS fractional (FSC) and binary (BSC) snow-cover data are important for obtaining
accurate spatiotemporal snow-cover information for the Tibetan Plateau (TP) where rapid …

Application of copula‐based approach as a new data‐driven model for downscaling the mean daily temperature

M Nazeri Tahroudi, Y Ramezani… - International Journal …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Downscaling and simulating various meteorological variables at different time scales are
fundamental topics for making climate change studies in a geographic region. Here, a new …

Documentation and validation of climate change perception of an ethnic community of the western Himalaya

A Sharma, DR Batish, SK Uniyal - Environmental Monitoring and …, 2020 - Springer
The high-altitude regions of Himalaya are among the best indicators of climate change yet
noticeable for the lack of climate monitoring stations. However, they support ethnic …

[PDF][PDF] Elevation‐dependent response of snow phenology to climate change from a remote sensing perspective: A case survey in the central Tianshan mountains from …

H Wang, X Zhang, P Xiao, K Zhang… - International Journal of …, 2022 - sgos.nju.edu.cn
Alpine snow is an important water resource in arid/semi-arid regions and sensitive to climate
change. However, the response of snow phenology to climate change in different elevations …