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Balch, W. M., & Kilpatrick, K. (1996). Calcification rates in the equatorial Pacific along 140 degrees W. Deep Sea Research, 43(4-6), 971+.[Full Text Available]

Balch, W. M., Kilpatrick, K. A., & Trees, C. (1996). The 1991 coccolithophore bloom in the central North Atlantic: I. Optical properties and factors affecting their distribution. Limnology and Oceanography, 41(8), 1669-1683.[Full Text Available]

Balch, W. M., Kilpatrick, K. A., Holligan, P., Harbour, D., & Fernandez, E. (1996). The 1991 coccolithophore bloom in the central North Atlantic, 2. Relating optics to coccolith concentration. Limnology and Oceanography, 41(8), 1684-1696.[Full Text Available]

Baldocchi, D., Valentini, R., Running, S., Oechel, W., & Dahlman, R. (1996). Strategies for measuring and modeling carbon dioxide and water vapour fluxes over terrestrial ecosystems. Global Change Biology, 2, 159-168.[Full Text Available]

Bannari, A., Huete, A. R., Morin, D., & Zagolski, F. (1996). Effets de la couleur et la brillance du sol sur les indices de végétation. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 17(10), 1885-1906.

Begue, A., Roujean, J. L., Hanan, N. P., Prince, S. D., Thawley, M., Huete, A., & Tanré, D. (1996). Shortwave radiation budget of Sahelian vegetation during HAPEX-Sahel - 1. Techniques of measurement and results. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 79(1-2), 79-96.

Cavalieri, D., Hall, D., & Wang, J. (1996). Comparison of aircraft and DMSP SSM/1 passive microwave measurements over the Bering Sea in April 1995. Proceedings of IGARSS '96 - International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Seminar.[Full Text Available]

Chase, T. N., Pielke, R. A., Kittel, T. G. F., Running, S. W., & Nemani, R. (1996). Sensitivity of a general circulation model to global changes in leaf area index. Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres, 101(D3), 7393-7408.[Full Text Available]

Coughlan, J. C., & Running, S. W. (1996). Biophysical aggregations of a forested landscape using an ecological diagnostic system. Transactions on GIS, 1(1), 25-39.

Foster, J., Chang, A., & Hall, D.K. (1996). Improved passive microwave algorithms for North America and Eurasia. Proceedings of 3rd International Workshop on Application on Remote Sensing in Hydrology.

Framiñan, M. B. and O. B. Brown (1996). Study of the Rio de la Plata Turbidity Front, Part I: Spatial and Temporal Distribution. Continental Shelf Research, 16(10), 1259-1282.

Gao, B.-C., & Kaufman, Y. J. (1996). Selection of the 1.375 µm MODIS channel for remote sensing of cirrus clouds and stratospheric aerosols from space. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 52(23), 4231-4237.

Gitelson, A. A., Kaufman, Y. J., & Merzlyak, M. N. (1996). Use of a green channel in remote sensing of global vegetation from EOS-MODIS. Remote Sensing of Environment, 58(3), 289-298.

Gordon, H. R., & Zhang, T. M. (1996). How well can radiance reflected from the ocean-atmosphere system be predicted from measurements at the sea surface?. Applied Optics, 35(33), 6527-6543.[Full Text Available]

Guenther, B., Barnes, W., Knight, E., Barker, J., Harnden, J., Weber, R., Roberto, M., Godden, G., Montgomery, H., & Abel, P. (1996). MODIS calibration: A brief review of the strategy for the at-launch calibration approach. Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, 13(2), 274-285.

Hall, D., Foster, J., Chang, A., Cavalieri, D., Wang, J., & Benson, C. (1996). Analysis of snow cover in Alaska using aircraft microwave data. Proceedings of IGARSS '96 - International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Seminar.[Full Text Available]

Hall, D.K., J.L. Foster, A.T.C. Chang, D.J. Cavalieri, J.R. Wang and C.S. Benson (1996). Analysis of melting snow cover in Alaska using aircraft microwave data (April 1995). Proceedings of IGARSS '96, 26-30 May 1996, Lincoln, NE, 2246-2248.

Hansen, M., Dubayah, R. and DeFries, R. (1996). Classification trees: An alternative to traditional land cover classifiers. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 17, 1075-1081.

Hoge, F. E., & Lyon, P. E. (1996). Satellite retrieval of inherent optical properties by linear matrix inversion of oceanic radiance models: An analysis of model and radiance measurement errors. Journal of Geophysical Research-Oceans, 101(C7), 16631- 16648.

Hoge, F. E., & Swift, R. N. (1996). Development and validation of satellite retrieval algorithms and derived products: An emerging role for airborne active-passive (laser-solar) ocean color remote sensing. Proceedings of SPIE (Laser Remote Sensing of Natural Waters), 2964, 92-99.

Huete, A. R. (1996). Extension of soil spectra to the satellite: atmosphere, geometric, and sensor considerations. Photointerpretation, 2, 101-118.

Huete, A. R. (1996). Soil radiative transfer influences in satellite monitoring of vegetation. Elements of Change 1995.

Huh, O. K., Moeller, C. C., Menzel, W. P., Rouse, L. J., & Roberts, H. H. (1996). Remote sensing of turbid coastal and estuarine waters: A method of multispectral water-type analysis. Journal of Coastal Research, 12(4), 984-995.

Hunt, E. R., Piper, S. C., Nemani, R., Keeling, C. D., Otto, R. D., & Running, S. W. (1996). Global net carbon exchange and intra-annual atmospheric CO2 concentrations predicted by an ecosystem process model and three-dimensional atmospheric transport model. Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 10(3), 431-456.

Kaufman Y. J., & Tanré, D. (1996). Direct and indirect methods for correcting the aerosol effect on remote sensing. Remote Sensing of Environment, 55, 65-79.

Kaufman, Y. J., L. A. Remer, R. D. Ottmar, D. E. Ward, R.-R. Li, R. Kleidman, R. S. Fraser, L. Flynn, D. McDougal, G. Shelton (1996). Relationship between remotely sensed fire intensity and rate of emission of smoke: SCAR-C experiment. Global biomass burning, 685-696.

Keane, R. E., Ryan, K., & Running, S. W. (1996). Simulating effects of fire on northern Rocky Mountain landscapes using the ecological process model FIRE-BGC. Tree Physiology, 16(3), 319-331.

King, M. D., & Hobish, M. K. (1996). Satellite instrumentation and imagery. Encyclopedia of Climate and Weather, 652-655.

King, M. D., Menzel, W. P., Grant, P. S., Myers, J. S., Arnold, G. T., Platnick, S. E., Gumley, L. E., Tsay, S.-C., Moeller, C. C., Fitzgerald, M., Brown, K. S., & Osterwisch, F. G. (1996). Airborne scanning spectrometer for remote sensing of cloud, aerosol, water vapor and surface properties. Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, 13, 777-794.[Full Text Available]

Korol, R. L., Milner, K. S., & Running, S. W. (1996). Testing a mechanistic model for predicting stand and tree growth. Forest Science, 42(2), 139-153.

Kremer, R. G., & Running, S. W. (1996). Simulating seasonal soil water balance in contrasting semi-arid vegetation communities. Ecological Modeling, 84(1-3), 151- 162.

Kremer, R. G., Hunt, Jr, E. R., Running, S. W., & Coughlan, J. C. (1996). Simulating vegetational and hydrologic responses to natural climatic variation and GCM-predicted climate change in a semi-arid ecosystem in Washington, USA. Journal of Arid Environments, 33(1), 23-38.

Lee, Z. P., Carder, K. L., Marra, J., Steward, R. G., & Perry, M. J. (1996). Estimating primary production at depth from remote sensing. Applied Optics, 35(3), 463-474.

Lee, Z. P., Carder, K. L., Peacock, T. G., Davis, C. O., & Mueller, J. L. (1996). Method to derive ocean absorption coefficients from remote sensing reflectance. Applied Optics, 35(3), 453-462.

Letelier, R. M., & Abbott, M. R. (1996). An analysis of chlorophyll fluorescence algorithms for the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS). Remote Sensing of Environment, 58, 215-223.[Full Text Available]

Letelier, R., Abbott, M., & Karl, D. (1996). Southern ocean optical drifter experiment. Antarctic Journal of the United States, 30, 108-110.[Full Text Available]

Liang, S., & Lewis, P. (1996). A parametric radiative transfer model for sky radiance distribution. Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer, 55(2), 181-189.

Menzel, W. P., & Prins, E. M. (1996). Monitoring biomass burning with the new generation of geostationary satellites. Biomass burning and global change (Volume 1), 56-64.

Milner, K. S., Running, S. W., & Coble, D. W. (1996). A biophysical soil/site model for estimating potential productivity of forested landscapes. Canadian Journal of Forest Research, 26(7), 1174-1186.

Moody, A., & Woodcock, C. E. (1996). Calibration-based models for correction of area estimates derived from coarse resolution land-cover data. Remote Sensing of Environment, 58, 1-17.

Moody, A., Gopal, S., & Strahler, A. H. (1996). Artificial neural network response to mixed pixels in coarse-resolution satellite data. Remote Sensing of Environment, 58(3), 329-343.

Nemani, R., & Running, S. W. (1996). Implementation of a hierarchical global vegetation classification in ecosystem function models. Journal of Vegetation Science, 7(3), 337-346.

Nemani, R., Running, S. W., & Pielke, R. A. (1996). Global vegetation cover changes from coarse resolution satellite data. Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres, 101(D3), 7157-7162.[Full Text Available]

Ni, W., Li. X., Woodcock, C. E., & Strahler, A. H. (1996). A modified geometric optical radiative transfer approach for bidirectional reflectance of discontinuous plant canopy. Journal of Remote Sensing (China), 1, 102-108.

Prins, E. M., & Menzel, W. P. (1996). The GOES-8 Automated Biomass Burning Algorithm (ABBA): Introducing new capabilities for monitoring diurnal fire activity in the Western Hemisphere. International Forest Fire News, 15, 49-52.

Prins, E. M., & Menzel, W. P. (1996). Investigation of biomass burning and aerosol loading and transport utilizing geostationary satellite data. Biomass burning and global change (Volume 1), 65-72.

Privette, J. L., Myneni, R. B., Emery, W. J., & Hall, F. G. (1996). Optimal sampling conditions for estimating grassland parameters via reflectance model inversions. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 34(1), 272-284.[Full Text Available]

Privette, J. L., W. J. Emery and D. S. Schimel (1996). Inversions of a vegetation reflectance model with NOAA-AVHRR data . Remote Sensing of Environment , 58, 187-200.

Riggs, G., Hall, D., & Salomonson, V. (1996). Recent progress in development of the MODIS snow cover algorithm and product. Proceedings of IGARSS '96 - International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Seminar.[Full Text Available]

Riggs, G., Hall, D., Feind, R., & Welch, R. (1996). A comparative look at two algorithms for mapping snow cover from Earth Observing System instruments. Proceedings of the 53rd Eastern Snow Conference, 1996.[Full Text Available]

Salomonson, V.V. (1996). Long-Term Data Sets from Spaceborne Sensors and New Technology Challenges. Proceedings of the Sixth SDL/USU Symposium on Infrared Radiometric Sensor Calibration, May 7-9, Space Dynamics Laboratory, Utah State University, Logan, Utah.

Shin, D., J.K. Pollard, and J.P. Muller (1996). Cloud detection from thermal infrared images using a segmentation technique. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 17(14), 2845-2856.

Slater, P. N., Biggar, S. F., Thome, K. J., Gellman, D. I., & Spyak, P. R. (1996). Vicarious radiometric calibrations of EOS sensors. Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, 13(2), 349-359.

Smith, W. L., Knuteson, R. O., Revercomb, H. E., Feltz, W., Howell, H. B., Menzel, W. P., Nalli, N., Brown, O. B., Brown, J., Minnett, P., & McKeown, W. (1996). Observations of the infrared radiative properties of the ocean--Implications for the measurement of sea surface temperature via satellite remote sensing. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 77(1), 41-51.

Snyder, W. C., & Wan, Z. (1996). Surface temperature correction for active infrared reflectance measurements of natural materials. Applied Optics, 35(13), 2216-2220.

Strahler, A. H. (1996). Vegetation canopy reflectance modeling--Recent developments and remote sensing perspectives. Remote Sensing Reviews, 15, 179-194.

Tanré, D., Herman, M., & Kaufman, Y. J. (1996). Information on aerosol size distribution contained in solar reflected radiances. Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres, 101(D14), 19043-19060.

Thornton, P. E., & Running, S. W. (1996). Generating daily surfaces of temperature and precipitation over complex topography. GIS and Environmental Modeling: Progress and Research Issues, 93-98.

Tsay, S. C., Gabriel, P. M., King, M. D., & Stephens, G. L. (1996). Spectral reflectance and atmospheric energetics in cirrus-like clouds. Part II: Applications of a Fourier-Riccati approach to radiative transfer. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 53, 3450-3467.[Full Text Available]

Valentini, R., D. Baldocchi, S.W. Running (1996). The IGBP-BAHC global flux network initiative (FLUXNET): current status and perspectives. Global Change Newsletter(28), 14-16.

van Leeuwen, W. J. D., & Huete, A. R. (1996). Effects of standing litter on the biophysical interpretation of plant canopies with spectral indices. Remote Sensing of Environment, 55(2), 123-138.

van Leeuwen, W. J. D., Huete, A. R., Jia, S., & Walthall, C. L. (1996). Comparison of vegetation index compositing scenarios: BRDF versus maximum VI approaches. Proceedings of IGARSS '96 - International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Seminar, 3, 1423-1425.[Full Text Available]

Vermote E., & Roger J. C. (1996). Radiative transfer modeling for calibration and atmospheric correction. Advances in the use of NOAA AVHRR for land applications, 49-72.[Full Text Available]

Vermote, E., & El Saleous, N. (1996). Absolute calibration of AVHRR channels 1 and 2. Advances in the use of NOAA AVHRR for land applications, 73-92.[Full Text Available]

Vermote, E., El Saleous, N., & Holben, B. N. (1996). Aerosol retrieval and atmospheric correction. Advances in the use of NOAA AVHRR for land applications, 93-124.[Full Text Available]

Wan, Z., & Dozier, J. (1996). A generalized split-window algorithm for retrieving land-surface temperature from space. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 34, 892-905.[Full Text Available]

Wan, Z., Snyder, W. C., & Zhang, Y. (1996). Validation of land-surface temperature retrieved from space. Proceedings of IGARSS '96 - International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Seminar, 4, 2095-2097.[Full Text Available]

White, J. D., Ryan, D. C., Key, C. C., & Running, S. W. (1996). Remote sensing of forest fire severity and vegetation recovery. International Journal of Wildland Fire, 6(3), 125-136.

Zheng, D., Hunt, Jr., E. R., & Running, S. W. (1996). Comparison of available soil water capacity estimated from topography and soil series information. Landscape Ecology, 11(1), 3-14.

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