Tedesco Remote Sensing of the Cryosphere

1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-1-118-36886-2
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 432 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: The Cryosphere Science Series

The cryosphere, that region of the world where water istemporarily or permanently frozen, plays a crucial role on ourplanet. Recent developments in remote sensing techniques, and theacquisition of new data sets, have resulted in significant advancesin our understanding of all components of the cryosphere and itsprocesses.
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 ofthe 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 icesheets
* 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 andexperiments
All figures are in color and provide an excellent visualaccompaniment to the technical and scientific aspect of thebook.
Readership: Senior undergraduates, Masters and PhDStudents, PostDocs and Researchers in cryosphere science and remotesensing.
Remote Sensing of the Cryosphere is the significant firstvolume in the new Cryosphere Science Series. This newseries comprises volumes that are at the cutting edge of newresearch, or provide focussed interdisciplinary reviews of keyaspects of the science.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Tedesco, Marco

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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 cryosphere17
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 fromspace 48
Alexander A. Khokanovsky
5 Remote sensing of snow depth and snow water equivalent73
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, andWaleed Abdalati
7 Remote sensing of glaciers 123
Bruce H. Raup, Liss M. Andreassen, Tobias Bolch, and SuzanneBevan
8 Remote sensing of accumulation over the Greenland andAntarctic ice sheets 157
Lora Koenig, Richard Forster, Ludovic Brucker, and JulieMiller
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 AlexeiKouraev
13 Remote sensing of permafrost and frozen ground 307
Sebastian Westermann, Claude R. Duguay, Guido Grosse, andAndreas Kääb
14 Field measurements for remote sensing of the cryosphere345
Hans-Peter Marshall, Robert L. Hawley, and Marco Tedesco
15 Remote sensing missions and the cryosphere 382
Marco Tedesco, Tommaso Parrinello, CharlesWebb, and ThorstenMarkus
Index 393

Über Autor(innen)

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.