The Earth's hydrological cycle
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The Earth's hydrological cycle
（Space sciences series of ISSI, 46）
Springer, c2014
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"Previously published in Surveys in Geophysics, Volume 35, No.3, 2014" -- back cover
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This book gives a comprehensive presentation of our present understanding of the Earth's Hydrological cycle and the problems, consequences and impacts that go with this topic. Water is a central component in the Earth's system. It is indispensable for life on Earth in its present form and influences virtually every aspect of our planet's life support system. On relatively short time scales, atmospheric water vapor interacts with the atmospheric circulation and is crucial in forming the Earth's climate zones. Water vapor is the most powerful of the greenhouse gases and serves to enhance the tropospheric temperature. The dominant part of available water on Earth resides in the oceans. Parts are locked up in the land ice on Greenland and Antarctica and a smaller part is estimated to exist as groundwater. If all the ice over the land and all the glaciers were to melt, the sea level would rise by some 80 m. In comparison, the total amount of water vapor in the atmosphere is small; it amounts to ~ 25 kg/m2, or the equivalent of 25 mm water for each column of air. Yet atmospheric water vapor is crucial for the Earth's energy balance. The book gives an up to date presentation of the present knowledge.
Previously published in Surveys in Geophysics, Volume 35, No. 3, 2014
Table of Contents
Foreword: International Space Science Institute (ISSI) Workshop on the Earth's Hydrological Cycle
L. Bengtsson
GENERAL SCIENTIFIC OVERVIEW
Review of Understanding of Earth's Hydrological Cycle: Observations, Theory and Modelling
M. Rast * J. Johannessen * W. Mauser
Challenges and Opportunities in Water Cycle Research: WCRP Contributions
K.E. Trenberth * G.R. Asrar
ATMOSPHERE
Physically Consistent Responses of the Global Atmospheric Hydrological Cycle in Models and Observations
R.P. Allan * C. Liu * M. Zahn * D.A. Lavers * E. Koukouvagias * A. Bodas-Salcedo
Quantifying and Reducing Uncertainty in the Large-Scale Response of the Water Cycle
G.M. Martin
LAND SURFACES
Connecting Satellite Observations with Water Cycle Variables Through Land Data Assimilation: Examples Using the NASA GEOS-5 LDAS
R.H. Reichle * G.J.M. De Lannoy * B.A. Forman * C.S. Draper * Q. Liu
Initialisation of Land Surface Variables for Numerical Weather Prediction
P. de Rosnay * G. Balsamo * C. Albergel * J. Munoz-Sabater * L. Isaksen
Closing the Gaps in Our Knowledge of the Hydrological Cycle over Land: Conceptual Problems
W.A. Lahoz * G.J.M. De Lannoy
OCEANS
Toward Improved Estimation of the Dynamic Topography and Ocean Circulation in the High Latitude and Arctic Ocean: The Importance of GOCE
J.A. Johannessen * R.P. Raj * J.E.O. Nilsen * T. Pripp * P. Knudsen * F. Counillon * D. Stammer * L. Bertino * O.B. Andersen * N. Serra * N. Koldunov
Sea Surface Salinity Observations from Space with the SMOS Satellite: A New Means to Monitor the Marine Branch of the Water Cycle
N. Reul * S. Fournier * J. Boutin * O. Hernandez * C. Maes * B. Chapron * G. Alory * Y. Quilfen * J. Tenerelli * S. Morisset * Y. Kerr * S. Mecklenburg * S. Delwart
Role of Ocean in the Variability of Indian Summer Monsoon Rainfall
P.V. Joseph
METHODS AND PROCESS STUDIES
Perspectives in Modelling Climate-Hydrology Interactions
S. Hagemann * T. Blome * F. Saeed * T. Stacke
Downscaling Satellite Precipitation with Emphasis on Extremes: A Variational _1-Norm Regularization in the Derivative Domain
E. Foufoula-Georgiou * A.M. Ebtehaj * S.Q. Zhang * A.Y. Hou
Global Snow Mass Measurements and the Effect of Stratigraphic Detail on Inversion of Microwave Brightness Temperatures
M. Richardson * I. Davenport * R. Gurney
Glaciers in the Earth's Hydrological Cycle: Assessments of Glacier Mass and Runoff Changes on Global and Regional Scales
V. Radic * R. Hock
Observing Global Surface Water Flood Dynamics
P.D. Bates * J.C. Neal * D. Alsdorf * G.J.-P. Schumann
APPLICATIONS
Arctic Climate and Water Change: Model and Observation Relevance for Assessment and Adaptation
A. Bring * G. Destouni
Irrigation Effects on Hydro-Climatic Change: Basin-Wise Water Balance-Constrained Quantification and Cross-Regional Comparison
S.M. Asokan * G. Destouni
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