Remote Sensing of the Cryosphere (eBook)

Marco Tedesco is Associate Professor at the City College of New York, Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences and is founder and director of the Cryospheric Processes Laboratory at CCNY.

List of contributors xv

Cryosphere Science: Series Preface xix

Preface xxi

Acknowledgments xxiii

About the companion website xxiv

1 Remote sensing and the cryosphere 1

Marco Tedesco

2 Electromagnetic properties of components of the cryosphere
17

Marco Tedesco

3 Remote sensing of snow extent 31

Dorothy K. Hall, Allan Frei, and Stephen J. Déry

4 Remote sensing of snow albedo, grain size, and pollution from
space 48

Alexander A. Khokanovsky

5 Remote sensing of snow depth and snow water equivalent
73

Marco Tedesco, Chris Derksen, Jeffrey S. Deems, and James L.
Foster

6 Remote sensing of melting snow and ice 99

Marco Tedesco,Thomas Mote, Konrad Steffen, Dorothy K. Hall, and
Waleed Abdalati

7 Remote sensing of glaciers 123

Bruce H. Raup, Liss M. Andreassen, Tobias Bolch, and Suzanne
Bevan

8 Remote sensing of accumulation over the Greenland and
Antarctic ice sheets 157

Lora Koenig, Richard Forster, Ludovic Brucker, and Julie
Miller

9 Remote sensing of ice thickness and surface velocity 187

Prasad Gogineni and Jie-Bang Yan

10 Gravimetry measurements from space 231

Scott B. Luthcke, D.D. Rowlands, T.J. Sabaka, B.D. Loomis, M.
Horwath, and A.A. Arendt

11 Remote sensing of sea ice 248

Walter N. Meier and Thorsten Markus

12 Remote sensing of lake and river ice 273

Claude R. Duguay, Monique Bernier, Yves Gauthier, and Alexei
Kouraev

13 Remote sensing of permafrost and frozen ground 307

Sebastian Westermann, Claude R. Duguay, Guido Grosse, and
Andreas Kääb

14 Field measurements for remote sensing of the cryosphere
345

Hans-Peter Marshall, Robert L. Hawley, and Marco Tedesco

15 Remote sensing missions and the cryosphere 382

Marco Tedesco, Tommaso Parrinello, CharlesWebb, and Thorsten
Markus

Index 393