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The results demonstrate that the  daily cloud-free snow-cover products not only posses the advantages of the AMSR-E (unaffected by weather conditions) and MODIS (relatively higher resolution) products, but are also characterized by high snow and overall classification accuracies (~85% and ~98%, respectively), substantially greater than those of the existing daily snow-cover products for all sky conditions and very similar to, or even slightly greater than, those of the daily MODIS products for clear-sky conditions. Using the snow-cover products, we analyzed the snow cover dynamics over the Tibetan Plateau and determined that the maximum number of  snow-covered days (SCD) in a year followed a decreasing tendency from 2003 to 2010,  with a decrease in snow-covered area (SCA) equivalent to 55.3% of the total Tibetan Plateau area. There is also a slightly increasing tendency in the maximum snow cover area (SCA), and a slightly decreasing tendency in the persistent snow cover area (i.e., pixels of  SCD &gt; 350 days) was observed for the 8-year period, which was characterized by increases in temperature (0.09 \u00b0C\/year) and in precipitation (0.26 mm\/year). This suggests that, on the Tibetan Plateau, changes in temperature and precipitation exert a considerable influence on the regional SCD and SCA, as well as the distribution of persistent snow cover.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs70100169","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2014,12,26]],"date-time":"2014-12-26T05:52:39Z","timestamp":1419573159000},"page":"169-194","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":72,"title":["Spatio-Temporal Change of Snow Cover and Its Response to Climate over the Tibetan Plateau Based on an Improved Daily Cloud-Free Snow Cover Product"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"7","author":[{"given":"Wei","family":"Wang","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"State Key Laboratory of Grassland Agro-Ecosystems, College of Pastoral Agriculture Science and Technology, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730020, China"},{"name":"Key Laboratory of Arid Climatic Change and educing Disaster of Gansu Province, Institute of Arid Meteorology, China Meteorological Administration, Lanzhou 730020, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-6530-1475","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Xiaodong","family":"Huang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"State Key Laboratory of Grassland Agro-Ecosystems, College of Pastoral Agriculture Science and Technology, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730020, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Jie","family":"Deng","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"State Key Laboratory of Grassland Agro-Ecosystems, College of Pastoral Agriculture Science and Technology, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730020, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-3516-1210","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Hongjie","family":"Xie","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"State Key Laboratory of Grassland Agro-Ecosystems, College of Pastoral Agriculture Science and Technology, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730020, China"},{"name":"Department of Geological Sciences, University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio,  TX 78249, USA"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Tiangang","family":"Liang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"State Key Laboratory of Grassland Agro-Ecosystems, College of Pastoral Agriculture Science and Technology, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730020, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2014,12,24]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"257","DOI":"10.1016\/j.rse.2006.01.002","article-title":"Mapping of snow water equivalent and snow depth in boreal and sub-arctic zones by assimilating space-borne microwave radiometer data and ground-based observations","volume":"101","author":"Pulliainen","year":"2006","journal-title":"Remote Sens. 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