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Summary
Summary
A rapidly growing area, remote sensing is crucial to the effort of modeling the earth's atmosphere and collecting such fundamental data as temperature, winds, pressures, water vapor distribution, clouds and other active constituents. This information enables us to test existing models of the atmosphere's energy balance, depletion of the ozone layer, climatic trends and other essential environmental data. Also discussed is the application of microwave remote sensing techniques to the atmospheres of planets other than the earth.
Author Notes
MICHAEL A. JANSSEN has over twenty years experience in the microwave remote sensing of the atmospheres of the Earth and planets, and in the development of ground- and space-based radiometers for astrophysics and remote sensing. He is a member of the Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE) mission and the Cassini radar science teams, and was recently awarded the NASA Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal for his contributions to COBE. He is currently Manager of the Space Physics and Astrophysics Section of the Earth and Space Sciences Division at Caltech's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.
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The central theme of this mathematically sophisticated book is the various applications of microwave techniques to atmospheric remote sensing as a means of evaluating atmospheric properties. The early introduction of the fundamentals of microwave remote sensing, including radiative transfer, measurement techniques, and atmospheric propagation, is followed by discussions of methods for determining atmospheric composition, temperature profiles, cloud structures, and precipitation formation. The applications of these techniques to the atmospheres of planets other than Earth are also covered. The presentation throughout this book emphasizes the fundamentals and methodologies that will retain their inherent values even as newer applications of the technology are discovered. The editor and each of the nine contributing authors are eminently qualified, by virtue of their extensive experience, to present this "from the ground up" discussion of a state-of-the-art science. The volume is well illustrated, with numerous appropriate figures, tables, and photographs. An extensive list of references is included at the end of each of the ten chapters, and an excellent index closes the volume. Recommended for researchers and graduate students directly involved in the field, or in other areas of remote sensing or atmospheric studies. D. R. Quisenberry; Mercer University
Table of Contents
| Preface |
| An Introduction to the Passive Microwave Remote Sensing of AtmospheresM. Janssen |
| Absorption of Microwaves by Atmospheric GasesP. Rosenkranz |
| Microwave Radiative Transfer in HydrometeorsA. Gasiewski |
| Ground-Based Microwave Remote Sensing of Meteorological VariablesE. Westwater |
| Tropospheric Radio-Path Delay from Ground-Based Microwave RadiometryG. Elgered |
| Remote Sensing of the Atmosphere from Satellites Using Microwave RadiometryN. Grody |
| Ground-Based Microwave Spectroscopy of the Earth's Stratosphere and MesosphereR. Clancy and D. Muhleman |
| Microwave Limb SoundingJ. Waters |
| Retrieval of Atmospheric Parameters in Planetary Atmospheres from Microwave SpectroscopyD. Muhleman and R. Clancy |
| Properties of the Deep Atmospheres of the Planets from Radioastronomical ObservationsS. Gulkis and M. Janssen |
| Index |
