Satellites, Oceanography and Society (eBook)

D. Halpern (Herausgeber)

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2000 | 1. Auflage
380 Seiten
Elsevier Science (Verlag)
978-0-08-054071-9 (ISBN)

Infos

The book shows how the new observations from satellites required advances in theory and influenced societal decision-making. Chapters have a review with an extensive reference list, making the book an excellent source of information for biological and physical oceanographers and atmospheric scientists. A large range of state-of-the art applications of satellite data (altimeter, color, infrared radiometer, scatterometer, synthetic aperture radar) visible in regional-to-global scale ocean studies integrating satellite and in-situ measurements with circulation models are covered in the book. Subjects include forecasting of surface waves, both swell and windsea, and surface wind, El Niñ,o/La Niñ,a, exchange of water masses between ocean basins, Rossby waves, eddies and filaments, fisheries, coastal ocean dynamics, phytoplankton dynamics, and ideas to measure sea surface salinity.

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The book shows how the new observations from satellites required advances in theory and influenced societal decision-making. Chapters have a review with an extensive reference list, making the book an excellent source of information for biological and physical oceanographers and atmospheric scientists.A large range of state-of-the art applications of satellite data (altimeter, color, infrared radiometer, scatterometer, synthetic aperture radar) visible in regional-to-global scale ocean studies integrating satellite and in-situ measurements with circulation models are covered in the book. Subjects include forecasting of surface waves, both swell and windsea, and surface wind; El Nino/La Nina; exchange of water masses between ocean basins, Rossby waves; eddies and filaments; fisheries; coastal ocean dynamics; phytoplankton dynamics; and ideas to measure sea surface salinity.

Inhalt

Front Cover 1
Satellites, Oceanography and Society 4
Copyright Page 5
Contents 6
Preface 12
Chapter 1. Oceanography before, and after, the advent of satellites 14
Chapter 2. Development and application of satellite retrievals of ocean wave spectra 18
1. Introduction 18
2. Global Comparison of ERS-I SWM and WAM Wave Spectra 29
3. Trans-Ocean Propagation of Swell 33
4. Conclusions and Perspectives 39
Chapter 3. ECMWF wave modeling and satellite altimeter wave data 48
1. Introduction 48
2. Surface Wave Modeling and Prediction 49
3. Altimeter Wave Height 57
4. Conclusions 65
Chapter 4. The use of satellite surface wind data to improve weather analysis and forecasting at the NASA Data Assimilation Office 70
1. Introduction 70
2. Measurement of Surface winds from Space 72
3. Impact of Scatterometer Data on Numerical Weather Prediction 74
4. Conclusions 84
Chapter 5. Combining altimeter observations and oceanographic data for ocean circulation and climate studies 92
1. Introduction 92
2. Ocean Transports 95
3. Results 99
4. Discussion and Conclusions 107
Chapter 6. Remote sensing of oceanic extra-tropical Rossby waves 112
1. Introduction 112
2. What Are Rossby Waves? 114
3. Observations and New Theories 115
4. Processing Satellite Data to Observe Rossby Waves 118
5. Results 120
6. Rossby Waves in Models 128
7. Future Research 132
Chapter 7. A study of meddies using simultaneous in-situ and satellite observations 138
1. Introduction 138
2. Data Description and Processing Methods 142
3. Results 144
4. Discussion 156
5. Conclusions 158
Chapter 8. Why care about El Niño and La Niña? 162
1. E1 Nifio, La Niña, and the Media 163
2. What are E1 Niño and La Niña? 167
3. E1 Niño and La Niña Impacts 173
4. E1 Niño/La Niña Lessons 179
Chapter 9. Satellites,society, and the Peruvian fisheries during the 1997–1998 El Niño 184
1. Introduction 185
2. Data and Methods 189
3. Results 190
4. Summary and Discussion . 197
Chapter 10. Satellites and fisheries. The Namibian hake, a case study 206
1. Introduction 206
2. Remote Sensing and Fisheries 208
3. SST Predictor of Availability of Namibian Hake 210
4. Discussion 214
Chapter 11. Ocean-color satellites and the phytoplankton-dust connection 220
1. Phytoplankton Regulation 220
2. Measuring Aerosols 222
3. Ocean-Color Sensors 224
4. Summary and Outlook 232
Chapter 12. An overview of temporal and spatial patterns in satellite-derived chlorophyll - a imagery and their relation to ocean processes 238
1. Introduction 238
2. Frequency Distributions of In-Situ Chlorophyll-a and CSAT 240
3. CSAT Variability 240
4. Conclusions 247
Chapter 13. Remote-sensing studies of the exceptional summer of 1997 in the Baltic Sea: The warmest August of the century, the Oder flood , and phytoplankton blooms 252
1. Introduction 252
2. Satellite Data and Methods 254
3. Results 256
4. Summary and Conclusions 266
Chapter 14. Remote-sensing studies of seasonal variations of surface chlorophyll- a concentration in the Black Sea 270
1. Introduction 270
2. Black Sea Circulation 271
3. Data and Methods 273
4. Results 275
Chapter 15. Remotely sensed coastal/deep-basin water exchange processes in the Black Sea surface layer 286
1. Introduction 286
2. Data 287
3. Mesoscale Structures in the Northwestern Region 288
4. Mesoscale Dynamics in the Southeastern Region 295
5. Eddies and Jets in the Northeastern Region 296
6. Conclusions 298
Chapter 16. Satellite-derived flow characteristics of the Caspian Sea 302
1. Introduction 302
2. Oceanography of the Caspian Sea 303
3. Results 307
4. Summary and Conclusions 309
Chapter 17. Analyzing the 1993–1998 interannual variability of NCEP model ocean simulations: The contribution of TOPEX/Poseidon observations 312
1. Introduction 313
2. Satellite Data 313
3. Results 314
4. Salinity 317
5. Concluding Remarks 319
Chapter 18. Recent progress toward satellite measurements of the global sea surface salinity field 322
1. Introduction 322
2. Why Measure Sea Surface Salinity From Space? 323
3. Salinity Remote Sensing 325
4. Candidate Satellite Systems to Measure Salinity 327
5. Sources of Salinity Retrieval Error 330
6. Summary and Conclusions 331
Chapter 19. Sea surface salinity: Toward an operational remote-sensing system 334
1. Introduction 335
2. Aircraft Remote Sensors 336
3. Proposals for Measuring Sea Surface Salinity from Space 341
4. Conclusions 346
Appendix I. List of Acronyms 350
Appendix II. Program of the International Conference on Satellites, Oceanography and Society 354
Index 374

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 6.6.2000
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geophysik
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Hydrologie / Ozeanografie
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Themenwelt: Technik ► Fahrzeugbau / Schiffbau
• Themenwelt: Technik ► Luft- / Raumfahrttechnik
• Themenwelt: Technik ► Nachrichtentechnik
• ISBN-10: 0-08-054071-6 / 0080540716
• ISBN-13: 978-0-08-054071-9 / 9780080540719