Satellite-based applications on climate change
Climate and other environmental changes are drawing unprecedented concern and attention from national governments, international organizations and local communities. Global warming has left noticeable impacts on the environment and the ecosystems it supports (including humans), and has important imp...
| Other Authors: | Qu, John J., Powell, Alfred M., Siva Kumar, M. V. K., SpringerLink (Online service) |
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht ; New York :
Springer,
©2013.
Dordrecht ; New York : [2013] |
| Physical Description: |
1 online resource (x, 371 pages) : illustrations. |
| Series: |
Springer atmospheric sciences.
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Table of Contents:
- An Introduction to Satellite-Based Applications and Research for Understanding Climate Change /
- Alfred M. Powell Jr., John J. Qu
- Calibrating a System of Satellite Instruments /
- Changyong Cao, Ruiyue Chen, Sirish Uprety
- MODIS Instrument Characteristics, Performance, and Data for Climate Studies /
- Vincent V. Salomonson, Xiaoxiong Xiong
- Evaluation of the Temperature Trend and Climate Forcing in the Pre- and Post Periods of Satellite Data Assimilation /
- Alfred M. Powell Jr., Jianjun Xu
- Development of the Global Multispectral Imager Thermal Emissive FCDRs /
- Xianjun Hao, John J. Qu
- Global Precipitation Monitoring /
- Ralph Ferraro, Thomas Smith
- Developing a Historical Precipitation Record /
- Thomas M. Smith
- Atmospheric Temperature Climate Data Records from Satellite Microwave Sounders /
- Cheng-Zhi Zou
- Monitoring Change in the Arctic /
- Jeffrey R. Key, Xuanji Wang, Yinghui Liu
- Assessing Hurricane Intensity Using Satellites /
- Mark DeMaria, John A. Knaff, Raymond Zehr
- Satellite-Based Ocean Surface Turbulent Fluxes /
- Long S. Chiu, Si Gao, Chung-Lin Shie
- Satellite-Monitored Snow Cover in the Climate System /
- Li Xu
- Evapotranspiration Estimates from Remote Sensing for Irrigation Water Management /
- Timothy C. Martin, Richard G. Allen
- Snow Cover /
- Peter Romanov
- Climate-Scale Oceanic Rainfall Based on Passive Microwave Radiometry /
- Long S. Chiu, Si Gao, Dong-Bin Shin
- Integrating Landsat with MODIS Products for Vegetation Monitoring /
- Feng Gao
- Satellite Applications for Detecting Vegetation Phenology /
- Min Li, John J. Qu
- Monitoring a Sentinel Species from Satellites: Detecting Emiliania huxleyi in 25 Years of AVHRR Imagery /
- Stephanie Schollaert Uz
- Land Surface Temperature (LST) Retrieval from GOES Satellite Observations /
- Donglian Sun, Yunyue Yu
- Remote Sensing of Leaf, Canopy, and Vegetation Water Contents for Satellite Environmental Data Records /
- E. Raymond Hunt Jr., Susan L. Ustin
- Recent Advances and Challenges of Monitoring Climate Change from Space /
- John J. Qu, Alfred M. Powell Jr.