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How can atmospheric variables such as temperature, wind, rain and ozone be measured by satellites? How are these measurements taken and what has been learned since the first measurements in the 1970s? What data are currently available and what data are expected in the future? The second volume of th...

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Other Authors: Phulpin, Thierry (Editor), Renaut, Didier (Editor), Roquet, Herve (Editor), Camy-Peyret, C. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London, UK : Hoboken, NJ : ISTE, Ltd. ; Wiley, 2023.
Subjects:
Satellite meteorology.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • > 14.2 Observations of water vapor
  • 14.2.1 Passive sensors
  • 14.2.2 Active sensors
  • 14.2.3 Homogenization and intercomparison
  • 14.3 Observation of cloud properties
  • 14.3.1 Observations using passive instruments
  • 14.3.2 Observations using active instruments
  • 14.3.3 Multi-instrument synergy for the establishment of cloud climatologies
  • 14.4 References
  • Chapter 15 Precipitation 287 Vincenzo LEVIZZANI and Christopher KIDD
  • 15.1 Need for global precipitation measurements
  • 15.2 Satellite observation of rainfall
  • 15.2.1 Visible/Infrared
  • 15.2.2 Passive microwave
  • 15.2.3 Radar
  • 15.2.4 Merged products
  • 15.3 Observation of solid precipitation
  • 15.4 Precipitation and the Earth water cycle
  • 15.5 References
  • Appendices
  • Appendix 1 309 Claude CAMY-PEYRET
  • Appendix 2 317 Claude CAMY-PEYRET
  • Appendix 3
  • Appendix 4
  • Glossary
  • List of Authors
  • Index
  • Summary of Volume 1.