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Book SynopsisThe 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.
Table of ContentsList 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
