Satellites, Oceanography and Society

D. Halpern

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2000
• Print ISBN:
  9780444505019
• eBook ISBN:
  9780080540719
• Topic: Physical Sciences
• Subtopic: Geophysics

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.

Table of contents

• Front Cover
• Satellites, Oceanography and Society
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Preface
• Chapter 1. Oceanography before, and after, the advent of satellites
• Chapter 2. Development and application of satellite retrievals of ocean wave spectra
• Chapter 3. ECMWF wave modeling and satellite altimeter wave data
• Chapter 4. The use of satellite surface wind data to improve weather analysis and forecasting at the NASA Data Assimilation Office
• Chapter 5. Combining altimeter observations and oceanographic data for ocean circulation and climate studies
• Chapter 6. Remote sensing of oceanic extra-tropical Rossby waves
• Chapter 7. A study of meddies using simultaneous in-situ and satellite observations
• Chapter 8. Why care about El Niño and La Niña?
• Chapter 9. Satellites,society, and the Peruvian fisheries during the 1997–1998 El Niño
• Chapter 10. Satellites and fisheries. The Namibian hake, a case study
• Chapter 11. Ocean-color satellites and the phytoplankton-dust connection
• Chapter 12. An overview of temporal and spatial patterns in satellite-derived chlorophyll - a imagery and their relation to ocean processes
• Chapter 13. 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
• Chapter 14. Remote-sensing studies of seasonal variations of surface chlorophyll- a concentration in the Black Sea
• Chapter 15. Remotely sensed coastal/deep-basin water exchange processes in the Black Sea surface layer
• Chapter 16. Satellite-derived flow characteristics of the Caspian Sea
• Chapter 17. Analyzing the 1993–1998 interannual variability of NCEP model ocean simulations: The contribution of TOPEX/Poseidon observations
• Chapter 18. Recent progress toward satellite measurements of the global sea surface salinity field
• Chapter 19. Sea surface salinity: Toward an operational remote-sensing system
• Appendix I. List of Acronyms
• Appendix II. Program of the International Conference on Satellites, Oceanography and Society
• Index