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- Title
Arctic herds get help from satellite.
- Authors
Gillespie, Alison
- Abstract
The article reports that scientists from the University of Washington in Seattle discovered a way to recognize severe wintertime rain-on-snow events and have applied it to the snowpack on Banks Island in northern Canada. The scientists, Thomas Grenfell and Jaakko Putkonen, determined rain-on-snow events using satellite readings of natural microwave radiation from Earth with the goal to map the events all over the northern hemisphere. They believe the discovery would help avoid large herd deaths caused by major rain-on-snow events in the region.
- Subjects
NORTHERN Hemisphere; BANKS Island (N.W.T.); NORTHWEST Territories; GRENFELL, Thomas; PUTKONEN, Jaakko; ECOLOGICAL research; REMOTE-sensing images; WINTER; UNIVERSITY of Washington
- Publication
Frontiers in Ecology & the Environment, 2008, Vol 6, Issue 4, p173
- ISSN
1540-9295
- Publication type
Article