Remote Sensing of the Cryosphere (eBook)

Marco Tedesco (Autor)

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2014 | 1. Auflage
432 Seiten
John Wiley & Sons (Verlag)
978-1-118-36886-2 (ISBN)

Infos

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.

Autor

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.

Inhalt

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

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 20.11.2014
• Reihe/Serie: The Cryosphere Science Series
• Reihe/Serie: The Cryosphere Science Series
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geologie
• Themenwelt: Technik
• Schlagworte: atmospheric sciences • earth sciences • Fernerkundung • Geoinformationssystem • Geowissenschaften • GIS & Remote Sensing • GIS u. Fernerkundung • Klimatologie u. Meteorologie • Kryosphäre • Kryosphäre • Meteorologie • meteorology
• ISBN-10: 1-118-36886-X / 111836886X
• ISBN-13: 978-1-118-36886-2 / 9781118368862