{"product_id":"remote-sensing-of-the-cryosphere-isbn-9781118368855","title":"Remote Sensing of the Cryosphere","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis 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:\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e • snow extent, depth, grain-size and impurities\u003cbr\u003e • surface and subsurface melting\u003cbr\u003e • glaciers\u003cbr\u003e • accumulation over the Greenland and Antarctica ice sheets\u003cbr\u003e • ice thickness and velocities\u003cbr\u003e • gravimetric measurements from space\u003cbr\u003e • sea, lake and river ice\u003cbr\u003e • frozen ground and permafrost\u003cbr\u003e • fieldwork activities\u003cbr\u003e • recent and future cryosphere-oriented missions and experiments\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAll figures are in color and provide an excellent visual accompaniment to the technical and scientific aspect of the book.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eReadership\u003c\/i\u003e: Senior undergraduates, Masters and PhD Students, PostDocs and Researchers in cryosphere science and remote sensing.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eRemote Sensing of the Cryosphere\u003c\/i\u003e is the significant first volume in the new \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eCryosphere Science Series\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e. 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.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eList of contributors xv\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCryosphere Science: Series Preface xix\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePreface xxi\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments xxiii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAbout the companion website xxiv\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 Remote sensing and the cryosphere 1\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eMarco Tedesco\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 Electromagnetic properties of components of the cryosphere 17\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eMarco Tedesco\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Remote sensing of snow extent 31\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eDorothy K. Hall, Allan Frei, and Stephen J. Déry\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Remote sensing of snow albedo, grain size, and pollution from space 48\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eAlexander A. Khokanovsky\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 Remote sensing of snow depth and snow water equivalent 73\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eMarco Tedesco, Chris Derksen, Jeffrey S. Deems, and James L. Foster\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 Remote sensing of melting snow and ice 99\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eMarco Tedesco,Thomas Mote, Konrad Steffen, Dorothy K. Hall, and Waleed Abdalati\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 Remote sensing of glaciers 123\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eBruce H. Raup, Liss M. Andreassen, Tobias Bolch, and Suzanne Bevan\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 Remote sensing of accumulation over the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets 157\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eLora Koenig, Richard Forster, Ludovic Brucker, and Julie Miller\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9 Remote sensing of ice thickness and surface velocity 187\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003ePrasad Gogineni and Jie-Bang Yan\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10 Gravimetry measurements from space 231\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eScott B. Luthcke, D.D. Rowlands, T.J. Sabaka, B.D. Loomis, M. Horwath, and A.A. Arendt\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11 Remote sensing of sea ice 248\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eWalter N. Meier and Thorsten Markus\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12 Remote sensing of lake and river ice 273\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eClaude R. Duguay, Monique Bernier, Yves Gauthier, and Alexei Kouraev\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13 Remote sensing of permafrost and frozen ground 307\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eSebastian Westermann, Claude R. Duguay, Guido Grosse, and Andreas Kääb\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14 Field measurements for remote sensing of the cryosphere 345\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eHans-Peter Marshall, Robert L. Hawley, and Marco Tedesco\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e15 Remote sensing missions and the cryosphere 382\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eMarco Tedesco, Tommaso Parrinello, CharlesWebb, and Thorsten Markus\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 393\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMarco Tedesco\u003c\/b\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eThe cryosphere, that region of the world where water is temporarily or permanently frozen, plays a crucial role on our planet. 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