Chiara Bertolin

Methodologies of climatic investigations

Historical series in Italy and sky-quality from satellite data

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In Europe and above all in Italy the abundance in historical documents, early and modern instrumental data are a unique valuable source of climate information. In the first part, documentary data and the Italian unexploited early instrumental observations carried out, at the heart of the Little Ice Age, by several Galileo Galilei¿s followers after the invention of the first thermometer are presented here for the first time. These data are a unique chance to reconstruct a temperature series covering a time twice respect the results reported in the IPCC 2007 report. In the second part, satellite data are used for climatic investigation applied at site testing for astronomy. At present, the remote sensing technique is the more effective mean to perform a worldwide survey of different climate parameters over the already active but also over future astronomical sites. The use of several satellite detectors with improved spatial resolution is explored to test, over the last decades, the unchanged sky quality characteristics in four among the top world sites. Moreover, for the first time, it is studied the cloud coverage and the aerosol content over a new exploitable ELT site: Tolonchar.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 344
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. April 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 220mm x 150mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 530g
• ISBN-13: 9783848435951
• ISBN-10: 3848435950
• Artikelnr.: 35495612

Autorenporträt

Dr Chiara Bertolin obtained PhD degree in Astronomy in 2010 at Padua University. Since 2006 she was involved in international EU Projects in climatic and physical sciences and microclimate for preventive conservation. She is author of several relevant peer-reviewed publications in multi disciplinary applications to which climatology is related.