Snow cover in the mountains of Greece—an important water source for communities, agriculture and natural ecosystems during the dry summer months—has more than halved over the past four decades, a ...

Satellite remote sensing has revolutionised snow cover monitoring, offering consistent, near‐global observations of spatial extent, duration and fractional snow cover. Optical sensors such as MODIS, ...

Snow cover on mountains in Greece has more than halved in just four decades, reveals new research. Researchers found that the important water source for communities, agriculture and natural ecosystems ...

Researchers at Concordia have developed a new method of measuring the amount of usable water stored in snowpacks. The comprehensive technique, known as snow water availability (SWA), uses satellite ...

For years, satellite data suggested that autumn snow cover in the Northern Hemisphere was actually increasing — a surprising twist in a warming world. But a new analysis reveals that this apparent ...