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Space oceanography

edited by Arthur P. Cracknell

World Scientific, c1992

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Lectures presented at an intensive course organised by the European Institute for Advanced Studies in Oceanography, University of Dundee, Scotland, 2nd-22nd September 1990

Description and Table of Contents

Description

The advent of Earth-observing satellites has revolutionised the gathering of oceanographic data and the visualisation of oceanographic processes. This course was for postgraduate students and young post-doctoral research workers and covered the instruments and satellite systems used to gather visible, infrared and microwave data over the oceans. It also covered the uses of these various types of data to provide information about ocean colour, biological productivity, surface temperature, currents and circulation patterns, near-surface windspeeds, bottom topography and the geoid.

Table of Contents

  • Overview, T.D. Allan. Part 1 Systems and instruments: visible and infrared instruments, P.N. Slater
  • airborne systems, A.C.B. Roberts. Part 2 Data handling and atmosphere effects: image processing, N.J. Mulder
  • atmospheric sounding, F. Olesen
  • radiative transfer equation and visible and near-infrared data, S.M. Singh. Part 3 Extraction of oceanographic parameters: ocean colour, I.S. Robinson
  • sea surface temperatures, A.F.G. Fiuta
  • passive microwave results, P. Gudmandsen
  • altimetry, C. Rapley
  • scatterometry, winds and waves, T.H. Guymer
  • ground-based radars, E.D.R. Shearman
  • sea surface currents, W.G. Huang.

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Details

  • NCID
    BA18737560
  • ISBN
    • 9810205066
  • Country Code
    si
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    Singapore ; New Jersey
  • Pages/Volumes
    xiv, 388 p.
  • Size
    23 cm
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