This timely volume provides an illustration of the variety of satellite-derived global data sets now available, their uses, advantages and limitations, and the range of variation that has already been observed with these data.
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"...a well illustrated selection of articles on many of the applications, present or potential, of satellite data in studies of global change...the articles are well-written...as an introductory text in environmental remote sensing it represents considerable value for money." Times Education Supplement
"...those interested in paleoclimatology will benefit from a perusal of this book..." Quaternary Research
"...those interested in paleoclimatology will benefit from a perusal of this book..." Quaternary Research
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Global environmental change is one of the most pressing international issues of the next century. There is a need to monitor the Earth's vital signs, from atmospheric ozone to tropical deforestation to sea level change. Satellite data sets will be vital in addressing global change issues, in determining natural variability and monitoring global and regional changes. This highly illustrated and accessible volume demonstrates the variety of satellite-derived global data sets now available, their uses, advantages and limitations, and the range of variation that has already been observed with these data.
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The desire to detect possible variations of the total solar irradiance, the total amount of power supplied to the Earth from the Sun by radiative means, has been a goal of mankind for more than a century. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
multiyear ice concentrations, retrieved surface temperature, annual mean fields, cloud top pressure, total ice concentrations, solar cycle timescales, upper level moisture, temperature sounding channels, layer mean temperature, clear column radiances, radiosonde reports, surface topography relative, world glacier inventory, ice facies, radiation budget measurements, mean cloud amount, total precipitable water, solar pointing, extratropical land, passive microwave data, surface skin temperature, stratospheric composition, glacierized regions, satellite image atlas, sea surface topography Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, South America, New York, Indian Ocean, North America, Goddard Space Flight Center, Geological Survey Professional Paper, Vonder Haar, Arctic Ocean, Climate Appl, National Research Council, Cultural Organization, Glaciers of the World, Gulf Stream, United Nations Educational, Aral Sea, Cape Cod, Annals of Glaciology, Arabian Sea, National Academy Press, American Geophysical Union, Defense Meteorological Satellite Program, International Association of Hydrological Sciences, International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project, University of Alaska New!
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The desire to detect possible variations of the total solar irradiance, the total amount of power supplied to the Earth from the Sun by radiative means, has been a goal of mankind for more than a century. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
multiyear ice concentrations, retrieved surface temperature, annual mean fields, cloud top pressure, total ice concentrations, solar cycle timescales, upper level moisture, temperature sounding channels, layer mean temperature, clear column radiances, radiosonde reports, surface topography relative, world glacier inventory, ice facies, radiation budget measurements, mean cloud amount, total precipitable water, solar pointing, extratropical land, passive microwave data, surface skin temperature, stratospheric composition, glacierized regions, satellite image atlas, sea surface topography Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, South America, New York, Indian Ocean, North America, Goddard Space Flight Center, Geological Survey Professional Paper, Vonder Haar, Arctic Ocean, Climate Appl, National Research Council, Cultural Organization, Glaciers of the World, Gulf Stream, United Nations Educational, Aral Sea, Cape Cod, Annals of Glaciology, Arabian Sea, National Academy Press, American Geophysical Union, Defense Meteorological Satellite Program, International Association of Hydrological Sciences, International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project, University of Alaska New!
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- Remote Sensing (Treatise of Petroleum Geology Reprint, No. 19) by Edward A. Beaumont in Front Matter, page 418, and page 442
- Atlas of the World, 12th Edition by Oxford University Press on page 277, and page 420
- Remote Sensing of Ice and Snow (Remote Sensing Applications Series) by Dorothy Hall on page 382, and page 442
- Space Science Projects for Young Scientists by David E. McKay on page 35, and page 248
- Planet Earth by German Space Center in Front Matter, and page 35
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- Remote Sensing of Snow and Ice by W. Gareth Rees in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Physical Processes in the Coastal Zone: Computer Modelling and Remote Sensing (Scottish Graduate Series) by Arthur P. Cracknell on page 219, and page 220
- Satellite Technology: Principles and Applications by Anil K. Maini on page 388, and page 424
- Earth from Above: Using Color-Coded Satellite Images to Examine the Global Environment by Claire L. Parkinson in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Exploring Space, Exploring Earth: New Understanding of the Earth from Space Research by Paul D. Lowman Jr in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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