Remote Sensing and Global Climate Change

✍ Scribed by Arthur P Cracknell (auth.), Robin A. Vaughan, Arthur P. Cracknell (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 1994
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 496
• Series: NATO ASI Series 24
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Experts report the state of the art in the study of global climate change using remote sensing techniques. Topics covered include the principles of remote sensing, the management of data, data requirements in climatology, the principles of modelling, the input of data into models, and the application of remote sensing to the atmosphere, ice and snow, seas and land.
The book is highly topical given the current great public and scientific awareness of possible man-made changes to the climate. It is essential reading for anyone new to the field, and invaluable as a reference work to those already working in it.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages I-XII
Climate Change — The Background....Pages 1-33
Remote Sensing, Systems and Data....Pages 35-65
Satellite Observations in Global Ecology....Pages 67-93
Satellite Data Archiving, Retrieval and Distribution....Pages 95-118
Special Sensor Microwave/Imager (SSM/I): Instrument, Data Analysis and Applications....Pages 119-133
Basis and Structure of Climate Models....Pages 135-176
The Use of Satellite Data in Numerical Weather Prediction....Pages 177-206
Remote Sensing Input to Climatological Datasets....Pages 207-214
The Microwave Limb Sounder and Error Reduction: Is What You See What You Get?....Pages 215-221
Atmospheric Trace Gases and Aerosols....Pages 223-252
Atmospheric Ozone Concentration Measurements....Pages 253-268
Clouds, Cloud Observations and Cloud Feedbacks....Pages 269-293
A Technique for Remote Sensing the Atmospheric Temperature and Pressure, Based on Fabry — Perot Interferometry of Rotational Raman Scattering Spectrum....Pages 295-302
Remote Sensing of Snow and Ice and Its Relevance to Climate Change Processes....Pages 303-339
The Study of Antarctica Using the ERS-1 Radar Altimeter....Pages 341-354
The NASA Space Shuttle Earth Observations Database for Global Change Science....Pages 355-365
Land Surface Energy Budget....Pages 367-391
Potential of Remote Sensing in the Thermal Band for Global Change....Pages 393-404
Comparison Between Albedo Derived from Satellite with Different Calibration Coefficients....Pages 405-409
Some Notes on the Oceanic Aspect of the Remote Sensing and Global Climate Change Issue....Pages 411-427
Remote Sensing Applications to Environmental Monitoring of the Coastal Zone....Pages 429-438
Marine Surveillance and Information System....Pages 439-443
The State of the Problem of Ecological Monitoring in the City of St Petersburg and Its Region....Pages 445-458
A Second-Order Two-Scale Model for Rough Surface Scattering with Applications to Scatterometry....Pages 459-463
Politics and Climate Change....Pages 465-477
Back Matter....Pages 479-499

✦ Subjects

Ecotoxicology; Geographical Information Systems/Cartography; Environmental Monitoring/Analysis; Meteorology/Climatology; Geophysics/Geodesy; Atmospheric Protection/Air Quality Control/Air Pollution