Remote Sensing and Climate Modeling

by Beniston, Martin; Verstraete, Michel M.

• ISBN13: 9780792368014
• ISBN10: 0792368010
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-03-01
• Publisher: Kluwer Academic Pub

Summary

This book for the first time covers state-of-the-art research in two domains which are largely complementary, but which have until now not made optimum use of their complementarity: remote sensing techniques and climate models. The material presented in the book covers such diverse areas within satellite remote sensing techniques as aerosol loading of the atmosphere, characterization of the land surface (type and extent of vegetation, reflectivity of snow, land and vegetation), soil moisture, etc. Such parameters are important determinants of the climate system and its evolution, and are often poorly quantified in climate models; the advantage of remote sensing techniques, which have a global coverage, therefore becomes obvious for the climate modeling community. The book is primarily aimed at advanced academic research, at PhD or post-doctoral levels and beyond.

Table of Contents

List of contributors	vii
Preface	1	(4)
A global vegetation index for SeaWiFS: Design and applications	5	(18)
N. Gobron
F. Melin
B. Pinty
M. M. Verstraete
J.-L. Widlowski
G. Bucini
Modeling sensible heat flux using estimates of soil and vegetation temperatures: the HEIFE and IMGRASS experiments	23	(28)
Li Jia
Massimo Menenti
Zhongbo Su
Zhao-Liang Li
Vera Djepa
Jiemin Wang
Exploitation of Surface Albedo Derived from the Meteosat Data to Characterize Land Surface Changes	51	(18)
Bernard Pinty
Michel M. Verstraete
Nadine Gobron
Fausto Roveda
Yves Govaerts
John V. Martonchik
David J. Diner
Ralph A. Kahn
Towards a Climatology of Australian Land Surface Albedo for use in Climate Models	69	(16)
Ian F. Grant
Collocated surface and satellite observations as constraints for Earth radiation budget simulations with global climate models	85	(18)
Martin Wild
How well do aerosol retrievals from satellites and representation in global circulation models match ground-based AERONET aerosol statistics?	103	(56)
S. Kinne
B. Holben
T. Eck
A. Smirnov
O. Dubovik
I. Slutsker
D. Tanre
G. Zibozdi
U. Lohmann
S. Ghan
R. Easter
M. Chin
P. Ginoux
T. Takemura
I. Tegen
D. Koch
R. Kahn
E. Vermote
L. Stowe
O. Torres
M. Mishchenko
I. Geogdzhayev
A. Hiragushi
Remote Sensing of Snow and Characterization of Snow Albedo for Climate Simulations	159	(22)
Anne W. Nolin
Allan Frei
Using the Special Sensor Microwave Imager to Monitor Surface Wetness and Temperature	181	(22)
Alan Basist
Claude Williams
Snow Cover Fraction in a General Circulation Model	203	(30)
A. Roesch
M. Wild
A. Ohmura
Boreal Forest Fire Regimes and Climate Change	233	(14)
B.J. Stocks
B.M. Wotton
M.D. Flannigan
M.A. Fosberg
D.R. Cahoon
J.G. Goldammer
Specification of surface characteristics for use in a high resolution regional climate model: on the role of glaciers in the swiss alps	247	(26)
Stephane Goyette
Claude Collet
Martin Beniston
Using Satellite Data Assimilation to Infer Global Soil Moisture Status and Vegetation Feedback to Climate	273	(34)
Wolfgang Knorr
Jan-Peter Schulz
The Use of Remotely-sensed Data for the Estimation of Energy Balance Components in a Mountainous Catchment Area	307	(22)
P.A. Brivio
R. Colombo
M. Meroni
Integration of operationally available remote sensing and synoptic data for surface energy balance modelling and environmental applications on the regional scale	329
Stefan Niemeyer
Jurgen Vogt