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 Ph D
Students, Post Docs 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.
قائمة المحتويات
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, Charles Webb, and Thorsten
Markus
Index 393
عن المؤلف
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.
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