2-11: Satellite Observations of the Earth/Atmosphere/Ocean/Biosphere

Short Summaries of Recent Research

• Changes in Arctic Ice Measured by Satellite
  
  
• Antarctic Ice Accelerating Toward the Sea
  
  
• Resolving Discrepancies Between Satellite- and Radiosonde-Derived Temperature Trends
  
  
• Satellite-derived Measurements Agree with Surface Temperature Trends
  
  
• The Tropopause
  
  
• Correction to satellite based temperature record changes cooling trend to a warming trend.
  
  
• Global Warming: Not whether it is happening but what to do about it.
  
  

Websites

• Creeping Dead Zones
  
  
• Satellite Praised for Coral Bleaching Info
  
  
• Satellite-Observed Changes in the Arctic
  
  
• Dust Storms
  
  
• Clouds Caused by Aircraft Exhaust May Warm the U.S. Climate
  
  
• Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite (UARS)
  
  
• The Melting Ice of Greenland
  
  
• J-Track Satellite Tracking
  
  
• Eddy, John A., ed, 1997: Consequences: The Nature & Implications of Environmental Change (3)2. (From GCRIO.)
  
  
• A picture gallery of multichannel radar images. NASA.
  
  
• Global Temperature Anomalies.
  
  
• Global Temperatures from Space and the Surface: Why the Discrepancy?
  
  
• The Remote Sensing Tutorial
  
  
• Satellite Instrumentation and Applications.
  
  
• Seawifsdaily coverage MPEG. (902K)
  
  
• Simulated flight around the Galapagos Islands (SIR-C data) (1.055M). NASA.
  
  
• Weather & global monitoring from the Commonwealth Bureau of Meteorology, Australia.
  
  
• Global Temperature Anomolies: 1979 - Current (From UNIDATA.)
  
  
• Interannual Variability in Net Primary Production and Precipitation
  
  
• Visible Earth: a searchable directory of images, visualization, and animations of the Earth
  
  
• Space Report
  
  
• LANDSAT program.
  
  
• NOAA Homepage.
  
  
• Real Time Weather Data (From the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research)
  
  
• Sea Surface Temperature from 1981 to Present
  
  
• The use of satellite remote sensing.
  
  
• Tropical Deforestation of Rondonia, Brazil
  
  
• USGS Earthshots
  
  

Additional References

• Mears, C.A., and F. J. Wenz, 2005: The effect of diurnal correction on satellite-derived lower tropospheric temperature. Science, 309, 1548-1551.
  
  
• Santer, B. D., and Coauthors, 2005: Amplification of surface temperature trends and variability in the tropical atmosphere. Science, 309, 1551-1556.
  
  
• Sherwood, S. C., J. R. Lanzante, and C. L. Meyer, 2005: Radiosonde daytime biases and late-20th century warming. Science, 309, 1556-1559.
  
  
• Atkinson, A., V. Siegel, E. Pakhomov, and P. Rothery, 2004: Long-term decline in krill stock and increase and salps within the Southern Ocean. Nature, 432, 100-103.
  
  
• Nolan, M., 2003: New DEMs may stimulate significant advancements in remote sensing of soil moisture. EOS, 84, 233-237.
  
  
• Kogan, F., 2002: World droughts in the new millennium from AVHRR-based vegetation health indices. EOS, 83, 557-559.
  
  
• Crowther, R., 2002: Space junk - protecting space for future generations. Science, 296, 1241-1242.
  
  
• Ohring, G., and A. Gruber, 2001: Climate monitoring from operational satellites: Accomplishments, problems, and prospects. Adv. Space Res., 28, 207-219.
  
  
• Kogan, F. N., 2001: Operational space technology for global vegetation assessment. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 82, 1949-1964.
  
  
• Yoder, James A., 2000: Terra's view of the sea. Science, 288, 1979-1980.
  
  
• Anagnostou, E. N., and A. Morales, 2000: TRMM precipitaiton radar helps address problems of ground-based weather radar systems. EOS, 81, 513-517.
  
  
• Houghton, J. T., L. G. Meira Filho, B. A. Callander N. Harris, A. Kattenberg, and K. Maskell, 1996: Climate Change 1995. The Science of Climate Change. Cambridge University Press, 435-438.
  
  
• Baker, Wayman E, George D. Emmitt, Franklin Robertson, Robert M. Atlas, John E. Molinari, David A. Bowdle, Jan Paegle, R. Michael Hardesty, Robert T. Menzies, T. N. Krishnamurti, Robert A. Brown, Madison J. Post, John R. Anderson, Andrew C. Lorenc, and James McElroy, 1995: Lidar-Measured Winds From Space: A Key Component for Weather and Climate Prediction. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 76, 869-888.
  
  
• Le Provost, C. , A. F. Bennett, and D. E. Cartwright, 1995: Ocean Tides for and from TOPEX/POSEIDON. Science, 267, 639-642.
  
  
• Gershon, N. D., and C. G. Miller, 1993: Dealing With the Data Deluge. IEEE Spectrum, July, 28-32.
  
  
• Zorpette, Clenn, 1993: Sensing Climate Change. IEEE Spectrum, July, 20-27.