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1 online resource (xii, 367 pages) : illustrations (some color), maps (some color).
The book shows how the new observations from satellites required advances in theory and influenced societal decision-making. Chapters have a review with an extensive reference list, making the book an excellent source of information for biological and physical oceanographers and atmospheric scientists. A large range of state-of-the art applications of satellite data (altimeter, color, infrared radiometer, scatterometer, synthetic aperture radar) visible in regional-to-global scale ocean studies integrating satellite and in-situ measurements with circulation models are covered in the book. Subjects include forecasting of surface waves, both swell and windsea, and surface wind; El Niño/La Niña; exchange of water masses between ocean basins, Rossby waves; eddies and filaments; fisheries; coastal ocean dynamics; phytoplankton dynamics; and ideas to measure sea surface salinity.
Oceanography before, and after, the advent of satellites / Walter Munk -- Development and application of satellite retrievals of ocean wave spectra / Patrick Heimbach and Klaus Hasselmann -- ECMWF wave modeling and satellite altimeter wave data / Peter Janssen -- The use of satellite surface wind data to improve weather analysis and forecasting at the NASA Data Assimilation Office / R. Atlas and R.N. Hoffman -- Combining altimeter observations and oceanographie data for ocean circulation and climate studies / Silvia L. Garzoli and Gustavo J. Goni -- Remote sensing of oceanic extra-tropical Rossby waves / Paolo Cipollini, David Cromwell, Graham D. Quartly and Peter G. Challenor -- A study of meddies using simultaneous in-situ and satellite observations / Paulo B. Oliveira, Nuno Serra, Armando F.G. Fiúza and Isabel Ambar -- Why care about El Niño and La Niña? / Michael H. Glantz -- Satellites, society, and the peruvian fisheries during the 1997-1998 el niño / Mary-Elena Carr and Kenneth Broad -- Satellites and fisheries : the Namibian hake, a case study / Ana Gordoa, Mercedes Masó and Lizette Voges -- Ocean-color satellites and the phytoplankton-dust connection / P.M. Stegmann -- An overview of temporal and spatial patterns in satellite-derived chlorophyll-a imagery and their relation to ocean processes / James A. Yoder -- Remote-sensing studies of the exceptional summer of 1997 in the Baltic Sea : the warmest August of the century, the Oder flood, and phytoplankton blooms / Herbert Siegel and Monika Gerth -- Remote-sensing studies of seasonal variations of surface chlorophyll-a concentration in the Black Sea / Nikolay P. Nezlin -- Remotely sensed coastal/deep-basin water exchange processes in the Black Sea surface layer / Anna I. Ginzburg, Andrey G. Kostianoy, Dmitry M. Soloviev and Sergei V. Stanichny -- Satellite-derived flow characteristics of the Caspian Sea / Halil I. Sur, Emin Özsoy and Rashit Ibrayev -- Analyzing the 1993-1998 interannual variability of NCEP model ocean simulations : the contribution of TOPEX/Poseidon observations / Richard W. Reynolds, David Behringer, Ming Ji, Ants Leetmaa, Christophe Maes, Femke Vossepoel and Yan Xue -- Recent progress toward satellite measurements of the global sea surface salinity field / Gary S.E. Lagerloef -- Sea surface salinity : toward an operational remote-sensing system / David M. Le Vine, James B. Zaitzeff, Eurico J. D'Sa, Jerry L. Miller, Calvin Swift and Mark Goodberlet.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.