Earth System Monitoring Selected Entries from the Encyclopedia of Sustainability Science and Technology /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Orcutt, John. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Subjects: Physics.; Remote sensing.; Geophysics and Environmental Physics.; Earth System Sciences.; Environmental Monitoring/Analysis.; Remote Sensing/Photogrammetry.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-5684-1

Modern Earth System Monitoring represents a fundamental change in the way scientists study the Earth System.� In Oceanography, for the past two centuries, ships have provided the platforms for observing.� Expeditions on the continents and Earths poles are land-based analogues. Fundamental understan...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Earth System Monitoring, Introduction
• 2.� Airborne and Space-borne Remote Sensing of Cryosphere
• 3. Aircraft and Space Atmospheric Measurements Using Differential Absorption Lidar (DIAL)
• 4. Contemporary Sea Level Variations, Observations and Causes
• 5. Coral Reef Ecosystems
• 6. Earth System Environmental Literacy
• 7. Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE): Detection of Ice Mass Loss, Terrestrial Mass Changes, and Ocean Mass Gains
• 8. Heat Content and Temperature of the Ocean
• 9. Hurricane and Monsoon Tracking with Driftsondes
• 10. Large-Scale Ocean Circulation: Deep Circulation and Meridional Overturning
• 11. Long-Term Ecological Research Network
• 12. Ocean Acidification
• 13. Ocean Evaporation and Precipitation
• 14. Ocean Observatories and Information: Building a Global Ocean Observing Network
• 15. Oil Spill Remote Sensing
• 16. Remote Sensing Applications to Ocean and Human Health
• 17. Remote Sensing of Natural Disasters
• 18. Remote Sensing of Ocean Color
• 19. Volcanoes, Observations and Impact
• Index.