A method for the detection of the severe rain-on-snow event on Banks Island, October 2003, using passive microwave remote sensing

摘要

Severe wintertime rain-on-snow (ROS) events create a strong ice layer (or layers) in the snow on arctic tundra that act as a barrier to ungulate grazing. They are linked with large-scale ungulate (reindeer, caribou, elk, and musk-ox) herd declines via sta