Earth System Monitoring

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-vi

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2. Earth System Monitoring, Introduction

   • John Orcutt

   Pages 1-5

3. Airborne and Space-borne Remote Sensing of Cryosphere

   • Kenneth C. Jezek

   Pages 7-34

4. Aircraft and Space Atmospheric Measurements Using Differential Absorption Lidar (DIAL)

   • Russell De Young

   Pages 35-61

5. Contemporary Sea Level Variations, Observations and Causes

   • Anny Cazenave

   Pages 63-75

6. Coral Reef Ecosystems

   • Helen T. Yap

   Pages 77-106

7. Earth System Environmental Literacy

   • Margaret Lowman

   Pages 107-121

8. Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE): Detection of Ice Mass Loss, Terrestrial Mass Changes, and Ocean Mass Gains

   • Victor Zlotnicki, Srinivas Bettadpur, Felix W. Landerer, Michael M. Watkins

   Pages 123-152

9. Heat Content and Temperature of the Ocean

   • Rui M. Ponte

   Pages 153-180

10. Hurricane and Monsoon Tracking with Driftsondes

    • Philippe Drobinski, Philippe Cocquerez, A. Doerenbecher, Terrence Hock, C. Lavaysse, D. Parsons et al.

    Pages 181-197

11. Large-Scale Ocean Circulation: Deep Circulation and Meridional Overturning

    • Stephen R. Rintoul

    Pages 199-232

12. Long-Term Ecological Research Network

    • Robert B. Waide, McOwiti O. Thomas

    Pages 233-268

13. Ocean Acidification

    • Maria Debora Iglesias-Rodriguez

    Pages 269-289

14. Ocean Evaporation and Precipitation

    • Luis Gimeno, Raquel Nieto, Anita Drumond, Ana María Durán-Quesada

    Pages 291-318

15. Ocean Observatories and Information: Building a Global Ocean Observing Network

    • O. Schofield, S. M. Glenn, M. A. Moline, M. Oliver, A. Irwin, Y. Chao et al.

    Pages 319-336

16. Oil Spill Remote Sensing

    • Mervin Fingas, Carl Brown

    Pages 337-388

17. Remote Sensing Applications to Ocean and Human Health

    • Frank E. Muller-Karger

    Pages 389-419

18. Remote Sensing of Natural Disasters

    • Steve Chien, Veerachai Tanpipat

    Pages 421-438

19. Remote Sensing of Ocean Color

    • Heidi M. Dierssen, Kaylan Randolph

    Pages 439-472

20. Volcanoes, Observations and Impact

    • Clifford Thurber, Stephanie Prejean

    Pages 473-505

Modern Earth System Monitoring represents a fundamental change in the way scientists study the Earth System.  In Oceanography, for the past two centuries, ships have provided the platforms for observing.  Expeditions on the continents and Earth’s poles are land-based analogues. Fundamental understanding of current systems, climate, natural hazards, and ecosystems has been greatly advanced. While these approaches have been remarkably successful, the need to establish measurements over time can only be made using Earth observations and observatories with exacting standards and continuous data.  The 19 peer-reviewed contributions in this volume provide early insights into this emerging view of Earth in both space and time in which change is a critical component of our growing understanding.

• Airborne Remote Sensing
• Aircraft Atmospheric Measurements
• Contemporary Sea Level Variations
• Coral Reef Ecosystems
• DIAL
• Driftsondes
• Earth System Environmental Literacy
• Earth System Monitoring
• Earth System Monitoring Sustainability
• Encyclopedia of Sustainability Science and Technology
• GRACE
• Hurricane Tracking
• Monsoon Tracking
• Ocean Acidification
• Ocean Circulation
• Ocean Heat Content
• Ocean Temperature
• Oil Spill Remote Sensing
• Remote Sensing
• Space Atmospheric Measurements

• , Scripps Insitution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, USA

  John Orcutt

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