Passive Microwave Remote Sensing of Oceans (Wiley–Praxis Series in Remote Sensing) - Hardcover

Cherny, Igor V.; Raizer, Victor Yu

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0471971707 ISBN 13: 9780471971702

Publisher: Wiley–Blackwell, 1998

Synopsis

This book discusses the data on oceans accumulated over the last two years and examines its importance. It explores such topics as the monitoring of oceans and atmospheric systems with diagnostics of oceans surface state, deep oceanic process and early diagnostics for origination of tropical cyclone and trajectories of their motion over oceans.

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About the Author

Igor V. Cherny is Head of Laboratory, Center for Program Studies at the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow. He has 15 years’ experience in radiophysics, and experimental remote sensing of ocean–atmosphere systems. Between 1981 and 1990, he conducted field experiments on research vessels and aircraft in the Pacific and Indian Oceans. He has carried out many investigations of the oceans by means of microwave techniques. Victor Yu. Raizer is Senior Scientist at the Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow, with more than 20 years’ experience in radiophysics, remote sensing, and experimental data processing. In addition to theoretical modelling and experimental studies of microwave emission and microwave scattering of the ocean surface, he has carried out field studies of ocean phenomena such as oil pollution, wind waves, internal waves and sea ice. Recognised as leading scientists in their field, they are the authors of more than 100 scientific papers and research–orientated texts.

From the Back Cover

Passive Microwave Remote Sensing of Oceans Igor V. Cherny and Victor Yu. Raizer In Passive Microwave Remote Sensing of Oceans, the detailed results of more than 20 years of experimental and theoretical investigations in the field of ocean remote sensing, utilising microwave radiometric techniques and multi–frequency aerospace instruments, are presented. Experimental results presented in this book to some extent contradict the traditional view that microwave radiometry and, in particular, millimetre–wave frequencies are not useful for remote sensing of oceans. The authors show that studies of the ocean and atmosphere as a coupled system, and of processes occurring at the ocean surface and in deep water, can be reliably evolved using compact passive radiometric sensors. They further demonstrate that for studies of global, large–scale and local processes in the ocean–atmosphere system, only the combination of microwave and optical techniques will reveal the spatial structure and dynamics of the ocean surface at scales from centimetres to several hundred metres. The text first introduces ocean surface phenomena, discussing the ocean–atmosphere interface, the classification of surface waves, the generation and statistics of wind waves, and wave–breaking and foaming processes. The microwave emission characteristics of the ocean surface are then described, and the influence of wind waves, bubble–foam–spray coverage, oil spills and sea ice are discussed. The instruments and methods used for passive microwave remote sensing of the oceans from both aircraft and from satellites are reviewed. Microwave observations of processes in the ocean–atmosphere system are then described in detail, incorporating a new approach for microwave diagnostics of deep–ocean processes. Examples presented include the Rossby soliton, frontal zone in the Kurosio region, influence of brief showers on the subsurface layer, and interaction of tropical cyclones with the ocean during their origin and subsequent trajectories over the ocean surface. Readership: Undergraduate and postgraduate students studying remote sensing, marine science, oceanography, geography, geophysics, meteorology, climatology, atmospheric physics and environmental science. Professional oceanographers and those interested in oceanographic remote sensing processes and their applications, marine scientists and engineers, environmental scientists, and those studying the ocean–atmosphere system.

Edition details

• Publisher: Wiley–Blackwell
• Publication date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0471971707
• ISBN 13: 9780471971702
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 204