Remote Sensing Of Aerosols, Clouds And Precipitation

Remote Sensing Of Aerosols, Clouds And Precipitation

Book Title



Remote Sensing of Aerosols, Clouds, and Precipitation



EDITORS



Tanvir Islam, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA

Yongxiang Hu, NASA Langley Research Center, USA

Alexander Kokhanovsky, EUMETSAT, Germany

Jun Wang, University of Nebraska, USA



BACKGROUND INFORMATION AND READERSHIP



The atmospheric parameters, including, aerosols, clouds, and precipitation, play very important role in our Earth's climate system. The climate feedbacks influencing the global climate variability are directly or indirectly affected by aerosols, clouds, and precipitation, and thus, modulate the Earth's radiation and surface energy balance. Therefore, global observations of aerosols, clouds, and precipitation are crucial not only to better understand the processes involved in the climate system but also to predict the future climate change.



Satellite remote sensing as a tool can be very valuable to acquire such global observations of aerosols, clouds, and precipitation for monitoring Earth's climate system. In particular, some of the regions in the Earth are not easily accessible to obtain in situ data while on those regions; space borne instruments can act as complimentary data sources. Besides, large scale data mapping and monitoring are only feasible with space–based observations.



A good progress has been made in the recent years in dealing with remote sensing of the aerosols, clouds, and precipitation using satellite measurements for global observations. Notably, the remote sensing

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