Exploring the Atmosphere by Remote Sensing Techniques

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Guzzi, Rodolfo (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2003.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2003.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Physics, 607
• Subjects: Geophysics.; Earth sciences.; Atmospheric sciences.; Lasers.; Photonics.; Geophysics/Geodesy.; Earth Sciences, general.; Atmospheric Sciences.; Optics, Lasers, Photonics, Optical Devices.

Only satellite-based remote-sensing instruments generate the wealth of global data on the concentrations of atmospheric constituents that are necessary for long-term monitoring of the atmosphere. This set of courses and lectures sponsored by ICTP in Trieste focuses on remote sensing for atmospheric...

Table of Contents:

• Global Measurement Networks for Atmospheric Studies
• Atmospheric Observations in the Perspective of Changing Climate and Environment, and the Synergy Between Ground-Based, Airborne and Space-Based Measurements
• A Review of Forward-Modeling Requirements
• Electromagnetic Scattering by Nonspherical Particles
• Modelling Information Content Problems of the Radiative Transfer Theory
• The Earth Radiation
• Analytical Inverse Methods for Aerosol Retrieval
• Studying Atmospheric Aerosol by Lidar
• Remote Sounding of the Stratosphere by the Occultation Method: The ORA Experiment.