Kryosphäre ; Fernerkundung ; Aufsatzsammlung 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 PhD Students, PostDocs 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. Remote sensing and the cryosphere ; Marco Tedesco; Electromagnetic properties of components of the cryosphere ; Marco Tedesco; Remote sensing of snow extent ; Dorothy K. Hall, Allan Frei, and Stephen J. Déry; Remote sensing of snow albedo, grain size, and pollution from space ; Alexander A. Khokanovsky; Remote sensing of snow depth and snow water equivalent ; Marco Tedesco, Chris Derksen, Jeffrey S. Deems, and James L. Foster; Remote sensing of melting snow and ice ; Marco Tedesco,Thomas Mote, Konrad Steffen, Dorothy K. Hall, and Waleed Abdalati; Remote sensing of glaciers ; Bruce H. Raup, Liss M. Andreassen, Tobias Bolch, and Suzanne Bevan; Remote sensing of accumulation over the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets ; Cora Koenig, Richard Forster, Ludovic Brucker, and Julie Miller; Remote sensing of ice thickness and surface velocity ; Prasad Gogineni and Jie-Bang Yan; Gravimetry measurements from space ; Scott B. Luthcke, D.D. Rowlands, T.J. Sabaka, B.D. Loomis, M. Horwath, and A.A. Arendt; Remote sensing of sea ice ; Walter N. Meier and Thorsten Markus; Remote sensing of lake and river ice ; Claude R. Duguay, Monique Bernier, Yves Gauthier, and Alexei Kouraev; Remote sensing of permafrost and frozen ground ; Sebastian Westermann, Claude R. Duguay, Guido Grosse, and Andreas Kääb; Field measurements for remote sensing of the cryosphere ; ans-Peter Marshall, Robert L. Hawley, and Marco Tedesco; Remote sensing missions and the cryosphere ; arco Tedesco, Tommaso Parrinello, CharlesWebb, and Thorsten Markus
