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...

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Andre forfattere: Qu, John. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Powell, Alfred. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Sivakumar, M.V.K. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
Format: Electronisk eBog
Sprog:English
Udgivet: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
Udgivelse:1st ed. 2013.
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Online adgang:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-5872-8
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Indholdsfortegnelse:
  • From the Contents: Introduction to Satellite Remote Sensing of Climate
  • Overview of Satellite-based Measurements and Applications
  • Calibrating A System of Satellites
  • MODIS Ten Year Performance to Support Climate Change Study
  • Introduction to NOAA Climate Data Record Program
  • Comparison of Trends and Solar Forcing in MSU, ERA-40 and NCEP/NCAR Analysis of Stratospheric and Tropospheric Temperature in the period of 1979-2002
  • Development of the Global Mutispectral Imager Thermal Emissive FCDRs
  • Atmospheric and climate applications
  • Global Precipitation Monitoring
  • Developing a Historical Precipitation Record
  • Atmospheric Temperature Climate Data Records from Satellite Microwave Sounders.