Author: Robert G. CranePublisher:
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Category : Climatology
Languages : en
Pages : 314
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Snow Watch '92, Detection Strategies for Snow and Ice
Author: Robert G. CranePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Climatology
Languages : en
Pages : 314
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Glaciological Data
Author: World Data Center A for GlaciologyPublisher:
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Category : Frozen ground
Languages : en
Pages : 414
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Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications
Author: Monthly Catalogue, United States Public Documents
Author: Publisher:
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1064
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Long-Term Climate Monitoring by the Global Climate Observing System
Author: Thomas R. KarlPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9401103232
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 513
Book Description
Is the climate warming? Is the hydrological cycle intensifying? Is the climate becoming more variable or extreme? Is the chemical composition of the atmosphere changing? Is the solar irradiance constant? Answers to these questions are fundamental to understanding, predicting, and assessing climate on time scales ranging from weeks to a century. Atmospheric, oceanic, and environmental scientists have primarily relied on an ad-hoc collection of disparate environmental observational and data management systems to address these problems. But these systems were not designed to measure climate variations and, as a result, changes and variations of the earth system during the instrumental climate record is far from unequivocal. This book develops a framework from which a Global Climate Observing System, currently being discussed in international forums, can be implemented to monitor changes and variations of climate. Audience: Administrators, policy makers, professionals, graduate students, and others interested in learning how we can ensure a long-term climate record for application to national economic development and understanding ecosystem dynamics.
Passive Microwave Remote Sensing of Land--Atmosphere Interactions
Author: 0 PampaloniPublisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 1000941299
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 702
Book Description
Recent advances in theory and observations using passive microwave remote sensing have hightlighted the potential of spaceborne sensors for contributing to the required land surface measurements of soils, vegetation, snow cover and precipitation. Furthermore, the spatial resolution of passive microwave observations matches the special scales of large-scale models of land-atmosphere interactions both for data assimilation and validation. In order to stimulate and focus this research a workshop, sponsored by ESA and NASA, was organized to review the state-of-the-art in microwave radiometry related to land applications and to exchange ideas leading into new directions for future research. This volume contains the refereed papers from the aforementioned ESA/NASA workshop, which are arranged by topic, as well as the (edited) working group reports.
EOS Science Plan
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Category : Atmospheric chemistry
Languages : en
Pages : 406
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Potential Climate Change Effects on Great Lakes Hydrodynamics and Water Quality
Author: David C. L. LamPublisher: ASCE Publications
ISBN: 9780784474686
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
This report provides a state-of-the-art review of the climate change effects on lake hydrodynamics and water quality. Most of the engineering cases in this book deal with the ability of existing infrastructure to cope with extreme weather conditions. The case studies are intended to illustrate the advancement in modeling research on lake hydrodynamics, thermal stratification, pollutant transport, and water quality by highlighting the climate change aspects in the application of these techniques. Topics include climate and lake responses, lake thermodynamics, large-scale circulation, wind-waves on large lakes, great lakes ice cover, and water quality.
The Impact of Climate Change on European Lakes
Author: Glen GeorgePublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9048129451
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 517
Book Description
In this book, scientists from eleven countries summarize the results of an EU project (CLIME) that explored the effects of observed and projected changes in the climate on the dynamics of lakes in Northern, Western and Central Europe. Historical measurements from eighteen sites were used to compare the seasonal dynamics of the lakes and to assess their sensitivity to local, regional and global-scale changes in the weather. Simulations using a common set of water quality models, perturbed by six climate-change scenarios, were then used to assess the uncertainties associated with the projected changes in the climate. The book includes chapters on the phenology and modelling of lake ice, the supply and recycling of nitrogen and phosphorus, the flux of dissolved organic carbon and the growth and the seasonal succession of phytoplankton. There are also chapters on the coherent responses of lakes to changes in the circulation of the atmosphere, the development of a web-based Decision Support System and the implications of climate change for the Water Framework Directive.
Author: Dorothy K. Hall