Marco Tedesco

Remote Sensing of the Cryosphere (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

The cryosphere, that region of the world where water is temporarily or permanently frozen, plays a crucial role on our planet. Recent developments in remote sensing techniques, and the acquisition of new data sets, have resulted in significant advances in our understanding of all components of the cryosphere and its processes. This book, based on contributions from 40 leading experts, offers a comprehensive and authoritative overview of the methods, techniques and recent advances in applications of remote sensing of the cryosphere. Examples of the topics covered include: * snow extent, depth, grain-size and impurities * surface and subsurface melting * glaciers * accumulation over the Greenland and Antarctica ice sheets * ice thickness and velocities * gravimetric measurements from space * sea, lake and river ice * frozen ground and permafrost * fieldwork activities * recent and future cryosphere-oriented missions and experiments All figures are in color and provide an excellent visual accompaniment to the technical and scientific aspect of the book. Readership: Senior undergraduates, Masters and PhD Students, PostDocs and Researchers in cryosphere science and remote sensing. Remote Sensing of the Cryosphere is the significant first volume in the new Cryosphere Science Series. This new series comprises volumes that are at the cutting edge of new research, or provide focussed interdisciplinary reviews of key aspects of the science.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Seitenzahl: 432
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. November 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781118368886
• Artikelnr.: 41940919

Autorenporträt

Marco Tedesco is Associate Professor at the City College of New York, Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences and is founder and director of the Cryospheric Processes Laboratory at CCNY.

Inhaltsangabe

List of contributors xv Cryosphere Science: Series Preface xix Preface xxi Acknowledgments xxiii About the companion website xxiv 1 Remote sensing and the cryosphere 1 Marco Tedesco 2 Electromagnetic properties of components of the cryosphere 17 Marco Tedesco 3 Remote sensing of snow extent 31 Dorothy K. Hall
Allan Frei
and Stephen J. Déry 4 Remote sensing of snow albedo
grain size
and pollution from space 48 Alexander A. Khokanovsky 5 Remote sensing of snow depth and snow water equivalent 73 Marco Tedesco
Chris Derksen
Jeffrey S. Deems
and James L. Foster 6 Remote sensing of melting snow and ice 99 Marco Tedesco
Thomas Mote
Konrad Steffen
Dorothy K. Hall
and Waleed Abdalati 7 Remote sensing of glaciers 123 Bruce H. Raup
Liss M. Andreassen
Tobias Bolch
and Suzanne Bevan 8 Remote sensing of accumulation over the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets 157 Lora Koenig
Richard Forster
Ludovic Brucker
and Julie Miller 9 Remote sensing of ice thickness and surface velocity 187 Prasad Gogineni and Jie-Bang Yan 10 Gravimetry measurements from space 231 Scott B. Luthcke
D.D. Rowlands
T.J. Sabaka
B.D. Loomis
M. Horwath
and A.A. Arendt 11 Remote sensing of sea ice 248 Walter N. Meier and Thorsten Markus 12 Remote sensing of lake and river ice 273 Claude R. Duguay
Monique Bernier
Yves Gauthier
and Alexei Kouraev 13 Remote sensing of permafrost and frozen ground 307 Sebastian Westermann
Claude R. Duguay
Guido Grosse
and Andreas Kääb 14 Field measurements for remote sensing of the cryosphere 345 Hans-Peter Marshall
Robert L. Hawley
and Marco Tedesco 15 Remote sensing missions and the cryosphere 382 Marco Tedesco
Tommaso Parrinello
CharlesWebb
and Thorsten Markus Index 393