Remote Sensing in Northern Hydrology: Measuring Environmental Change / Edition 1

by Claude R. Dugua, Alain Pietroniro

Overview

Published by the American Geophysical Union as part of the Geophysical Monograph Series, Volume 163.

The North, with its vast and varied landscapes, sparse population, and cold climate has always challenged its explorers: physically, mentally, logistically, and technically. The scientific community in particular has known such challenges in the past and does so today, especially in light of the projected intensification of climate change at high latitudes. Indeed, there are clear signs that change is already ongoing in many environmental variables: Air temperature and annual precipitation (including snowfall) are increasing in many regions; spring snow cover extent is decreasing; lake and river ice freeze-up dates are occurring later and breakup dates earlier; glaciers are retreating rapidly; permafrost temperatures are increasing and, in many cases, the permafrost is thawing; and sea-ice extent is at record minimums and thinning.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780875904283
Publisher:	Wiley
Publication date:	01/14/2005
Series:	Geophysical Monograph Series , #163
Pages:	160
Product dimensions:	8.70(w) x 10.70(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Claude R. Dugua and Alain Pietroniro are the authors of Remote Sensing in Northern Hydrology: Measuring Environmental Change, published by Wiley.

Table of Contents

Preface
Claude R. Duguay and Alain Pietroniro  vii

Introduction
Claude R. Duguay and Alain Pietroniro 1

Remote Sensing of Snow Cover
Dieter Scherer, Dorothy K. Hall, Volker Hochschild, Max K. Onig, Jan-Gunna Wrinther, Claude R. Duguay, Frederique Pivot, Christian Mazier, Frank Rau, Klaus Seidel, Rune Solberg, and Anne E. Walker  7

Remote Sensing of Glaciers and Ice Sheets
Jan-Gunna Wrinther, Robert Bindschadler, Max K. Onig, and Dieter Scherer  39

Ice Characteristics and Processes, and Remote Sensing of Frozen Rivers and Lakes
Martin O. Jeffries, Kim Morris, and Nickolai Kozlenko  63

Satellite Remote Sensing of Permafrost and Seasonally Frozen Ground
Claude R. Duguay, Tingjun Zhang, David W. Leverington, and Vladimir E . Romanovsky  91

Remote Sensing of Surface Water and Soil Moisture
Alain Pietroniro, Jessika Toyra, Robert Leconte, and Geoff Kite  119

Evaporation/Evapotranspiration  Estimates With Remote Sensing
Raoul Grange rand Normand Bussibres  143

Appendix: Acronyms  155