Our changing planet : the view from space / edited by Michael D. King [and others].

Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007.
Physical Description: xvii, 390 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps (chiefly color) ; 32 cm
Additional Creators: King, Michael D.

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Contents

THE DYNAMIC ATMOSPHERE: Clouds: are the shutters of the Earth changing? -- Cloud optical and microphysical properties -- Clouds and the Earth's radiation budget -- Water vapor -- A world of rain -- Hurricanes: connections with climate change -- Lightning -- Warming and cooling of the atmosphere -- Dust in the wind -- Atmospheric pollution: a global problem -- Ship tracks -- Airplane contrails -- Weekly cycle of nitrogen dioxide pollution from space -- The ozone hole -- The chlorine threat to Earth's ozone shield -- THE VITAL LAND: The San Andreas Faulth: adjustments in the Earth's crust -- Mt. Pinatubo: an enduring volcanic hazard -- Extreme floods -- Satellite monitoring of Ebola virus hemorrhagic fever epidemics -- Snow cover: the most dynamic feature of the Earth's surface -- Glaciers: scribes of climate; harbingers of change -- Boreal forests: a lengthening growing season -- Soil moisture: a critical underlying role -- The sunlit Earth -- Temperature of the land surface -- THE RESTLESS OCEAN: Ocean bathymetry and plate tectonics -- Ocean surface topography and circulation -- Heat in the ocean -- Sea level rise -- Tides -- Winds over ocean -- The stormy Atlantic -- The ocean biosphere -- Coccolithophores and the 'Sea of Milk' -- Coral bleaching -- Hunting red tides from space -- Marine sediments -- Tsunamis -- THE FROZEN CAPS: Antarctica: a continent revealed -- Ice sheets on the move -- Ice sheets and the threat to global sea level -- The Great White Ocean: the Arctic's changing sea ice cover -- Bound together: Arctic Sea ice, ocean, and atmosphere -- Sea ice: the shifting crust of the southern ocean -- Antarctic polynyas: ventilation, bottom water, and high productivity for the world's oceans -- EVIDENCE OF OUR TENURE: Mapping the ancient Maya landscape from space -- Global land use changes -- The changing role of fire on Earth -- The tropical rain forest: threatened powerhouse of the biosphere -- The Green Wave -- Monitoring urban areas globally and locally -- Gray wave of the great transformation -- Urban heat islands -- Urbanization in China: the Pearl River Delta example -- Water issues in the Fertile Crescent: irrigation in southeastern Turkey -- Chronicling the destruction of Eden: the draining of the Iraqi marshes -- Destruction of the Aral Sea -- The desiccation of Lake Chad -- Industrial pollution in the Russian Arctic -- Oil spills at sea -- Satellites and satellite orbits.

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ISBN

9780521828703 (hbk.)
0521828708 (hbk.)

Note

Includes index.

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