Global Land Ice Measurements From Space

Author : Jeffrey S. Kargel,Gregory J. Leonard,Michael P. Bishop,Andreas Kääb,Bruce H. Raup
Publisher : Springer
Page : 936 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2014-07-08
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783540798187

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Global Land Ice Measurements from Space by Jeffrey S. Kargel,Gregory J. Leonard,Michael P. Bishop,Andreas Kääb,Bruce H. Raup Pdf

An international team of over 150 experts provide up-to-date satellite imaging and quantitative analysis of the state and dynamics of the glaciers around the world, and they provide an in-depth review of analysis methodologies. Includes an e-published supplement. Global Land Ice Measurements from Space - Satellite Multispectral Imaging of Glaciers (GLIMS book for short) is the leading state-of-the-art technical and interpretive presentation of satellite image data and analysis of the changing state of the world's glaciers. The book is the most definitive, comprehensive product of a global glacier remote sensing consortium, Global Land Ice Measurements from Space (GLIMS, http://www.glims.org). With 33 chapters and a companion e-supplement, the world's foremost experts in satellite image analysis of glaciers analyze the current state and recent and possible future changes of glaciers across the globe and interpret these findings for policy planners. Climate change is with us for some time to come, and its impacts are being felt by the world's population. The GLIMS Book, to be released about the same time as the IPCC's 5th Assessment report on global climate warming, buttresses and adds rich details and authority to the global change community's understanding of climate change impacts on the cryosphere. This will be a definitive and technically complete reference for experts and students examining the responses of glaciers to climate change. World experts demonstrate that glaciers are changing in response to the ongoing climatic upheaval in addition to other factors that pertain to the circumstances of individual glaciers. The global mosaic of glacier changes is documented by quantitative analyses and are placed into a perspective of causative factors. Starting with a Foreword, Preface, and Introduction, the GLIMS book gives the rationale for and history of glacier monitoring and satellite data analysis. It includes a comprehensive set of six "how-to" methodology chapters, twenty-five chapters detailing regional glacier state and dynamical changes, and an in-depth summary and interpretation chapter placing the observed glacier changes into a global context of the coupled atmosphere-land-ocean system. An accompanying e-supplement will include oversize imagery and other other highly visual renderings of scientific data.

Author : Michael Zemp,United Nations Environment Programme,World Glacier Monitoring Service
Publisher : UNEP/Earthprint
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Science
ISBN : 9280728989

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Global Glacier Changes by Michael Zemp,United Nations Environment Programme,World Glacier Monitoring Service Pdf

This publication is about the world's surface ice on land outside the two polar ice sheets. It provides a sound and well illustrated review on the basis of available data, the global distribution of glaciers and ice caps and their changes since maximum extents of the so-called Little ice Age. The work also presents the latest state of knowledge on glacier changes and discusses the challenges of the 21st century for the monitoring of glaciers and ice caps.

Author : Bhaskar Ramachandran,Christopher O. Justice,Michael J. Abrams
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 894 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2010-12-14
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781441967497

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Land Remote Sensing and Global Environmental Change by Bhaskar Ramachandran,Christopher O. Justice,Michael J. Abrams Pdf

Land Remote Sensing and Global Environmental Change: The Science of ASTER and MODIS is an edited compendium of contributions dealing with ASTER and MODIS satellite sensors aboard NASA's Terra and Aqua platforms launched as part of the Earth Observing System fleet in 1999 and 2002 respectively. This volume is divided into six sections. The first three sections provide insights into the history, philosophy, and evolution of the EOS, ASTER and MODIS instrument designs and calibration mechanisms, and the data systems components used to manage and provide the science data and derived products. The latter three sections exclusively deal with ASTER and MODIS data products and their applications, and the future of these two classes of remotely sensed observations.

Author : John F. Shroder,Sher Jan Ahmadzai
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2016-06-13
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780128018613

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Transboundary Water Resources in Afghanistan by John F. Shroder,Sher Jan Ahmadzai Pdf

Transboundary Water from Afghanistan: Climate Change, and Land-Use Implications brings together diverse factual material on the physical geography and political, cultural, and economic implications of Southwest Asian transboundary water resources. It is the outgrowth of long-term deep knowledge and experience gained by the authors, as well as the material developed from a series of new workshops funded by the Lounsbery Foundation and other granting agencies. Afghanistan and Pakistan have high altitude mountains providing vital water supplies that are highly contentious necessities much threatened by climate change, human land-use variation, and political manipulation, which can be managed in new ways that are in need of comprehensive discussions and negotiations between all the riparian nations of the Indus watershed (Afghanistan, China, India, and Pakistan). This book provides a description of the basic topographic configuration of the Kabul River tributary to the Indus river, together will all its tributaries that flow back and forth across the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan, and the basic elements that are involved with the hydrological cycle and its derivatives in the high mountains of the Hindu Kush and Himalaya. Synthesizes information on the physical geography and political, cultural, and economic implications of Southwest Asian transboundary water resources Offers a basic topographic description of the Indus River watershed Provides local water management information not easily available for remote and contentious border areas Delivers access to the newest thinking from chief personnel on both sides of the contentious border Features material developed from a series of new workshops funded by the Lounsbery Foundation and other granting agencies

Author : Vivien Gornitz
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2019-06-11
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780231548892

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Vanishing Ice by Vivien Gornitz Pdf

The Arctic is thawing. In summer, cruise ships sail through the once ice-clogged Northwest Passage, lakes form on top of the Greenland Ice Sheet, and polar bears swim farther and farther in search of waning ice floes. At the opposite end of the world, floating Antarctic ice shelves are shrinking. Mountain glaciers are in retreat worldwide, unleashing flash floods and avalanches. We are on thin ice—and with melting permafrost’s potential to let loose still more greenhouse gases, these changes may be just the beginning. Vanishing Ice is a powerful depiction of the dramatic transformation of the cryosphere—the world of ice and snow—and its consequences for the human world. Delving into the major components of the cryosphere, including ice sheets, valley glaciers, permafrost, and floating ice, Vivien Gornitz gives an up-to-date explanation of key current trends in the decline of ice mass. Drawing on a long-term perspective gained by examining changes in the cryosphere and corresponding variations in sea level over millions of years, she demonstrates the link between thawing ice and sea-level rise to point to the social and economic challenges on the horizon. Gornitz highlights the widespread repercussions of ice loss, which will affect countless people far removed from frozen regions, to explain why the big meltdown matters to us all. Written for all readers and students interested in the science of our changing climate, Vanishing Ice is an accessible and lucid warning of the coming thaw.

Author : Petri Pellikka,W. Gareth Rees
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2009-12-16
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780203851302

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Remote Sensing of Glaciers by Petri Pellikka,W. Gareth Rees Pdf

Glaciers and ice sheets have been melting significantly during recent decades, posing environmental threats at local, regional and global scales. Changes in glaciers are one of the clearest indicators of alterations in regional climate, since they are governed by changes in accumulation (from snowfall) and ablation (by melting of ice). Glacier chan

Author : Roger G. Barry,Eileen A. Hall-McKim
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 445 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2018-08-09
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781108423168

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Polar Environments and Global Change by Roger G. Barry,Eileen A. Hall-McKim Pdf

Surveys atmospheric, oceanic and cryospheric processes, present and past conditions, and changes in polar environments.

Author : Levan Tielidze
Publisher : Springer
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2017-01-20
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783319505718

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Glaciers of Georgia by Levan Tielidze Pdf

This book gives the most detailed and comprehensive insights into the morphology, morphometry and dynamics of glaciers in the Georgian Caucasus region up to date. It examines the variability of valley glaciers after the Little Ice Age maximum and identifies glacial dynamics during historical periods. The reconstruction of glaciation in the Late Pleistocene and Holocene was conducted based on long lasting detailed glacial-geomorphological observations by the author. It further analyses moraine structures, river terraces, geodynamics of the relief, and snow and firn line locations derived from field surveys in most glacier basins in the southern and northern slopes of the Georgian Caucasus. A whole set of methodological approaches was applied including remote sensing and GIS, glacio-geomorphological, cartographical, aerial image processing and petrographic methods, unveiling accurate information about glaciers difficult to access, e.g. in the Abkhazeti and Tskhinvali regions. The book provides a full database of Georgia’s modern glaciation and displays a set of compiled maps of the distribution of the Late Pleistocene glaciation of the Georgian Caucasus.

Author : Robert William Schmieder
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 897 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2023-06-09
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783031203435

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Heard Island by Robert William Schmieder Pdf

This highly illustrated volume is a compendium of evidence and examples of change on Heard Island, a World Heritage Site near Antarctica and one of the most remote places on earth. Drawing on records from the past two centuries, as well as his own expeditions to the island in 1997 and 2016, the author provides visual evidence for the changes wrought by climate change, erosion, and environmental policy. Various phenomena not previously observed on Heard Island are documented, such as fluid dynamic instabilities and the destruction of the seawalls of a major lagoon. Based on the past, the author makes predictions about Heard Island for specific years in the future: 2031 (decade), 2051 (tricade), 2121 (century), 3021 (millennium), and 1,002,021 (millionium). The book serves as an important link between the past and future of Heard Island.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Artificial satellites in earth sciences
ISBN : UCSD:31822009263294

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The Earth Observer by Anonim Pdf

Author : Zongming Li,Mohd Johari Mohd Yusof
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 778 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2022-12-09
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781000835069

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Advances in Measurement Technology, Disaster Prevention and Mitigation by Zongming Li,Mohd Johari Mohd Yusof Pdf

Advances in Measurement Technology, Disaster Prevention and Mitigation collects papers resulting from the conference on Measurement Technology, Disaster Prevention and Mitigation (MTDPM 2022), Zhengzhou, China, 27–29 May, 2022. The primary goal is to promote research and developmental activities in measurement, disaster prevention and mitigation, and another goal is to promote scientific information interchange between scholars from the top universities, business associations, research centers and high-tech enterprises working all around the world. The conference conducts in-depth exchanges and discussions on relevant topics such as measurement, disaster prevention and mitigation, aiming to provide an academic and technical communication platform for scholars and engineers engaged in scientific research and engineering practice in the field of measurement application, measurement in civil engineering and disaster reduction. By sharing the research status of scientific research achievements and cutting-edge technologies, it helps scholars and engineers all over the world comprehend the academic development trend and broaden research ideas. So as to strengthen international academic research, academic topics exchange and discussion, and promote the industrialization cooperation of academic achievements.

Author : Anthony Arendt,Summer Rupper,Sujay V. Kumar,David Rounce,Nir Krakauer
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2021-01-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9782889663569

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Collaborative Research to Address Changes in the Climate, Hydrology and Cryosphere of High Mountain Asia by Anthony Arendt,Summer Rupper,Sujay V. Kumar,David Rounce,Nir Krakauer Pdf

Author : Peter G. Knight
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780470750230

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Glacier Science and Environmental Change by Peter G. Knight Pdf

Glacier Science and Environmental Change is an authoritative and comprehensive reference work on contemporary issues in glaciology. It explores the interface between glacier science and environmental change, in the past, present, and future. Written by the world’s foremost authorities in the subject and researchers at the scientific frontier where conventional wisdom of approach comes face to face with unsolved problems, this book provides: state-of-the-art reviews of the key topics in glaciology and related disciplines in environmental change cutting-edge case studies of the latest research an interdisciplinary synthesis of the issues that draw together the research efforts of glaciologists and scientists from other areas such as geologists, hydrologists, and climatologists color-plate section (with selected extra figures provided in color at www.blackwellpublishing.com/knight). The topics in this book have been carefully chosen to reflect current priorities in research, the interdisciplinary nature of the subject, and the developing relationship between glaciology and studies of environmental change. Glacier Science and Environmental Change is essential reading for advanced undergraduates, postgraduate research students, and professional researchers in glaciology, geology, geography, geophysics, climatology, and related disciplines.

Author : Vijay P. Singh,Pratap Singh,Umesh K. Haritashya
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 1301 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2011-06-29
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789048126422

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Encyclopedia of Snow, Ice and Glaciers by Vijay P. Singh,Pratap Singh,Umesh K. Haritashya Pdf

The earth’s cryosphere, which includes snow, glaciers, ice caps, ice sheets, ice shelves, sea ice, river and lake ice, and permafrost, contains about 75% of the earth’s fresh water. It exists at almost all latitudes, from the tropics to the poles, and plays a vital role in controlling the global climate system. It also provides direct visible evidence of the effect of climate change, and, therefore, requires proper understanding of its complex dynamics. This encyclopedia mainly focuses on the various aspects of snow, ice and glaciers, but also covers other cryospheric branches, and provides up-to-date information and basic concepts on relevant topics. It includes alphabetically arranged and professionally written, comprehensive and authoritative academic articles by well-known international experts in individual fields. The encyclopedia contains a broad spectrum of topics, ranging from the atmospheric processes responsible for snow formation; transformation of snow to ice and changes in their properties; classification of ice and glaciers and their worldwide distribution; glaciation and ice ages; glacier dynamics; glacier surface and subsurface characteristics; geomorphic processes and landscape formation; hydrology and sedimentary systems; permafrost degradation; hazards caused by cryospheric changes; and trends of glacier retreat on the global scale along with the impact of climate change. This book can serve as a source of reference at the undergraduate and graduate level and help to better understand snow, ice and glaciers. It will also be an indispensable tool containing specialized literature for geologists, geographers, climatologists, hydrologists, and water resources engineers; as well as for those who are engaged in the practice of agricultural and civil engineering, earth sciences, environmental sciences and engineering, ecosystem management, and other relevant subjects.

Author : Unesco,World Water Assessment Programme (United Nations)
Publisher : UN-HABITAT
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Water conservation
ISBN : 9789231040061

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Water by Unesco,World Water Assessment Programme (United Nations) Pdf

This illustrated report sets out a global review of the state of the world's freshwater resources, based on the collective work of 24 United Nations agencies, following on from the conclusions of the first UN World Water Development Report 'Water for People, Water for Life' published in 2003 (ISBN 9231038818). This second edition discusses progress towards the water-related targets of the UN Millennium Development Goals and examines a range of key issues including population growth and increasing urbanisation, changing ecosystems, food production, health, industry and energy, as well as risk management, valuing and paying for water and increasing knowledge and capacity. It contains 16 case studies which consider key challenges in water resource management and makes a number of recommendations to guide future action and encourage sustainable use, productivity and management of our increasingly scarce freshwater resources.