**Satellite-Based Snow Cover Analysis and the Snow Water Equivalent Retrieval Perspective over China**

Yubao Qiu1<sup>∗</sup> , Huadong Guo1, Jiancheng Shi2 and Juha Lemmetyinen3

> *1Center for Earth Observation and Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 2Institute for Computational Earth System Science, University of California, Santa Barbara 3Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI), Arctic Research Centre, Sodänkylä 1China 2USA 3Finland*
