Remote sensing and global climate change [proceedings of the NATO Advanced Study Institute on Remote Sensing and Global Climate Change held at Dundee, Scotland, July 19 - August 8, 1992

Experts report the state of the art in the study of global climate change using remote sensing techniques. Topics covered include the principles of remote sensing, the management of data, data requirements in climatology, the principles of modelling, the input of data into models, and the application of remote sensing to the atmosphere, ice and snow, seas and land. The book is highly topical given the current great public and scientific awareness of possible man-made changes to the climate. It is essential reading for anyone new to the field, and invaluable as a reference work to those already working in it. Front Matter....Pages I-XII Climate Change — The Background....Pages 1-33 Remote Sensing, Systems and Data....Pages 35-65 Satellite Observations in Global Ecology....Pages 67-93 Satellite Data Archiving, Retrieval and Distribution....Pages 95-118 Special Sensor Microwave/Imager (SSM/I): Instrument, Data Analysis and Applications....Pages 119-133 Basis and Structure of Climate Models....Pages 135-176 The Use of Satellite Data in Numerical Weather Prediction....Pages 177-206 Remote Sensing Input to Climatological Datasets....Pages 207-214 The Microwave Limb Sounder and Error Reduction: Is What You See What You Get?....Pages 215-221 Atmospheric Trace Gases and Aerosols....Pages 223-252 Atmospheric Ozone Concentration Measurements....Pages 253-268 Clouds, Cloud Observations and Cloud Feedbacks....Pages 269-293 A Technique for Remote Sensing the Atmospheric Temperature and Pressure, Based on Fabry — Perot Interferometry of Rotational Raman Scattering Spectrum....Pages 295-302 Remote Sensing of Snow and Ice and Its Relevance to Climate Change Processes....Pages 303-339 The Study of Antarctica Using the ERS-1 Radar Altimeter....Pages 341-354 The NASA Space Shuttle Earth Observations Database for Global Change Science....Pages 355-365 Land Surface Energy Budget....Pages 367-391 Potential of Remote Sensing in the Thermal Band for Global Change....Pages 393-404 Comparison Between Albedo Derived from Satellite with Different Calibration Coefficients....Pages 405-409 Some Notes on the Oceanic Aspect of the Remote Sensing and Global Climate Change Issue....Pages 411-427 Remote Sensing Applications to Environmental Monitoring of the Coastal Zone....Pages 429-438 Marine Surveillance and Information System....Pages 439-443 The State of the Problem of Ecological Monitoring in the City of St Petersburg and Its Region....Pages 445-458 A Second-Order Two-Scale Model for Rough Surface Scattering with Applications to Scatterometry....Pages 459-463 Politics and Climate Change....Pages 465-477 Back Matter....Pages 479-499 This volume reports on the study of global climate change using remote sensing techniques. It discusses the principles of remote sensing, the management of data, data requirements in climatology, the principles of modelling, and the application of remote sensing to the atmosphere and land.