Earth from Above: Using Color-Coded Satellite Images to Examine the Global Environment

Parkinson, Claire L.

ISBN 10: 0935702415 / ISBN 13: 9780935702415

Editore: University Science Books, 1997

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This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has soft covers. In good all round condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,700grams, ISBN:9780935702415. Codice articolo 3898108

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Titolo: Earth from Above: Using Color-Coded ...

Casa editrice: University Science Books

Data di pubblicazione: 1997

Legatura: Brossura

Condizione: Good

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A tutorial for non-specialists and lay readers on reading and interpreting satellite images. Explains how satellite data provide information about the atmosphere, the Antarctic ozone hole, El Nino, deforestation, the missing carbon dilemma, and the impact of such factors as sea ice and volcanoes on atmospheric temperatures. Includes maps, photographs, diagrams, review questions with answers, and 50 color satellite images. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Informazioni sull?autore:

Claire L. Parkinson has been a climatologist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center since 1978, with a research emphasis on polar sea ice and climate change. She is also Project Scientist for the Aqua satellite mission, aimed at improved understanding of the coupled atmosphere/ocean/land/ice system, has done field work in both polar regions, and has written books on satellite Earth observations and the history of science. She has a B.A. from Wellesley College and a Ph.D. from Ohio State University and has served on committees for NASA, NOAA, and the National Academy of Sciences. She is a Fellow of both the American Meteorological Society and Phi Beta Kappa and received a NASA Outstanding Leadership Medal in 2003 and the Goldthwait Polar Medal from Ohio State's Byrd Polar Research Center in 2004.