Remote Sensing and Climate Modeling: Synergies and Limitations

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-3

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2. A global vegetation index for SeaWiFS: Design and applications

   • N. Gobron, F. Mélin, B. Pinty, M. M. Verstraete, J.-L. Widlowski, G. Bucini

   Pages 5-21

3. Modeling sensible heat flux using estimates of soil and vegetation temperatures: the HEIFE and IMGRASS experiments

   • Li Jia, Massimo Menenti, Zhongbo Su, Zhao-Liang Li, Vera Djepa, Jiemin Wang

   Pages 23-49

4. Exploitation of Surface Albedo Derived From the Meteosat Data to Characterize Land Surface Changes

   • Bernard Pinty, Michel M. Verstraete, Nadine Gobron, Fausto Roveda, Yves Govaerts, John V. Martonchik et al.

   Pages 51-67

5. Towards a Climatology of Australian Land Surface Albedo for use in Climate Models

   • Ian F. Grant

   Pages 69-84

6. Collocated surface and satellite observations as constraints for Earth radiation budget simulations with global climate models

   • Martin Wild

   Pages 85-102

7. How well do aerosol retrievals from satellites and representation in global circulation models match ground-based AERONET aerosol statistics?

   • S. Kinne, B. Holben, T. Eck, A. Smirnov, O. Dubovik, I. Slutsker et al.

   Pages 103-158

8. Remote Sensing of Snow and Characterization of Snow Albedo for Climate Simulations

   • Anne W. Nolin, Allan Frei

   Pages 159-180

9. Using the Special Sensor Microwave Imager to Monitor Surface Wetness and Temperature

   • Alan Basist, Claude Williams

   Pages 181-202

10. Snow Cover Fraction In A General Circulation Model

    • A. Roesch, M. Wild, A. Ohmura

    Pages 203-232

11. Boreal Forest Fire Regimes And Climate Change

    • B. J. Stocks, B. M. Wotton, M. D. Flannigan, M. A. Fosberg, D. R. Cahoon, J. G. Goldammer

    Pages 233-246

12. Specification of surface characteristics for use in a high resolution regional climate model: on the role of glaciers in the swiss alps

    • Stéphane Goyette, Claude Collet, Martin Beniston

    Pages 247-271

13. Using Satellite Data Assimilation to Infer Global Soil Moisture Status and Vegetation Feedback to Climate

    • Wolfgang Knorr, Jan-Peter Schulz

    Pages 273-306

14. The Use of Remotely-Sensed Data for the Estimation of Energy Balance Components in a Mountainous Catchment Area

    • P. A. Brivio, R. Colombo, M. Meroni

    Pages 307-327

15. Integration of operationally available remote sensing and synoptic data for surface energy balance modelling and environmental applications on the regional scale

    • Stefan Niemeyer, Jürgen Vogt

    Pages 329-343

16. Back Matter

    Pages 345-345

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1 2 Michel M. VERSTRAETE and Martin BENISTON 1 Space Applications Institute, EC Joint Research Centre, Ispra, Italy 2 Department of Geography, University of Fribourg, Switzerland This volume contains the proceedings ofthe workshop entitled “Satellite Remote Sensing and Climate Simulations: Synergies and Limitations” that took place in Les Diablerets, Switzerland, September 20–24, 1999. This international scientific conference aimed at addressing the current and pot- tial role of satellite remote sensing in climate modeling, with a particular focus on land surface processes and atmospheric aerosol characterization. Global and regional circulation models incorporate our knowledge ofthe dynamics ofthe Earth's atmosphere. They are used to predict the evolution of the weather and climate. Mathematically, this system is represented by a set ofpartial differential equations whose solution requires initial and bo- dary conditions. Limitations in the accuracy and geographical distribution of these constraints, and intrinsic mathematical sensitivity to these conditions do not allow the identification of a unique solution (prediction). Additional observations on the climate system are thus used to constrain the forecasts of the mathematical model to remain close to the observed state ofthe system.

• Aerosol
• Albedo
• Climatology
• Scale
• Snow
• climate change
• global circulation
• remote sensing
• vegetation

• Department of Geography, University of Fribourg, Switzerland

  Martin Beniston

• Space Applications Institute, Joint Research Centre, Ispra (VA), Italy

  Michel M. Verstraete

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