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Satellite remote sensing in climatology, Andrew M. Carleton, Belhaven Press (London) and CRC Press (Boca Raton), 1991. No. of Pages: 291 + xxviii. Price: £39.50. ISBN 1‐85293‐039‐x

Satellite remote sensing in climatology, Andrew M. Carleton, Belhaven Press (London) and CRC... for the shelves of most readers of the International Journal qf Climatology. J. D. HAIGH lmperiul College of Science, Technology and Medicine REFERENCE Houghton, J. T., Jenkins, G. J. and Ephraums, J. J. 1990. Climate Change: The IPCC Scientific Assessment. Report prepared by Working Group 1. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. SATELLITE REMOTE SENSING I N CLIMATOLOGY,Andrew M. Carleton, Belhaven Press (London) and CRC Press (Boca Raton), 1991. No. of Pages: 291+xxviii. Price: f39.50. ISBN 1-85293-039-X. The field of climatology has experienced significant changes because of the increasing importance of satellites in monitoring the state of the Earth’s environment. Disadvantaged by the paucity of observation over much of the world’s oceans and by an uneven distribution of data points over the land surface, the large volume of information that is now available from a number of satellite-borne sensors has created a new perspective for climate science. I n addition to their role in numerical weather prediction, these satellite data provide a basis for the monitoring of phenomena such as E N S 0 and the behaviour of the Antarctic ozone ‘hole’.This book takes a fresh look at satellite climatology and examines many of the aspects of the climate system that can be studied from satellites. The most significant component of the book is a treatment of clouds, their properties and the global distribution and character of cloud systems. This is the author’s expertise, and the book benefits from this. The emphasis on clouds and cloud systems is not unduly great, since an understanding of the role of clouds and their effect on various radiation fields is essential if valuable use is to be made from any remotely sensed data set. Clouds play a dominant role in the transfer of radiation through the atmosphere, and significantly affect the quality of remote sensing data for a wide variety of parameters. Much of the material on clouds and cloud systems draws on the authors own research expertise and the approach adopted in each chapter is ideal for use in an undergraduate course and for beginning postgraduates. A summary of the problem and a wide ranging discussion of the techniques available, particularly satellite instruments and analysis techniques, make excellent reading for someone new to the area, or as a basis for further research by a graduate student. The text is well referenced (over 30 pages of references for the whole book) and a glossary helps acquaint new readers to some of the specialist terms used in the book. An extensive list of acronyms at the beginning of the book is traditional, but the first chapter follows this with an extensive thematic summary of satellite systems for meteorology and climatology. Such a summary is a valuable contrast to the usual method of summarizing satellite contributions to science by satellite name, and since many of the sensors have flown on multiple platforms, or many of the experiments have contributions from multiple platforms, this makes an overall picture difficult to obtain. The detail that is present in the book is a credit to the author and the book must be a valuable addition to the resources of anyone with graduate or undergraduate teaching in this area. KENDAL MCGUFFIE, University o Technology Sydney f CLIMATE, DATA AND RESOURCES: A REFERENCE AND GUIDE, Edward Linacre, Routledge (London), 1992. No. of pages: 366+xviii. Price: f50.00(hb.), ISBN 0-41505702-7, f16.99 (pb.) ISBN 0-415-05703-5. This is a very broadly based book which deals with a wide variety of topics relating to the acquisition and analysis of climate data and their use for descriptive and interpretive purposes. The book ‘arose out of a senior undergraduate course on Applied Climatology’, and is aimed, ambitiously, at ‘students, meteorologists, engineers, planners, farmers ...and also ... teachers who d o not have access to a comprehensive, up-to-date library’. It is a ‘systematic digest of over 2000 books and papers as well as new material’, ‘attention is focused on the sort of observations which are made a t a single climate station’, and ‘anyone ... running a weather station should find the book useful’. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png International Journal of Climatology Wiley

Satellite remote sensing in climatology, Andrew M. Carleton, Belhaven Press (London) and CRC Press (Boca Raton), 1991. No. of Pages: 291 + xxviii. Price: £39.50. ISBN 1‐85293‐039‐x

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International Journal of Climatology , Volume 13 (7) – Nov 1, 1993
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for the shelves of most readers of the International Journal qf Climatology. J. D. HAIGH lmperiul College of Science, Technology and Medicine REFERENCE Houghton, J. T., Jenkins, G. J. and Ephraums, J. J. 1990. Climate Change: The IPCC Scientific Assessment. Report prepared by Working Group 1. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. SATELLITE REMOTE SENSING I N CLIMATOLOGY,Andrew M. Carleton, Belhaven Press (London) and CRC Press (Boca Raton), 1991. No. of Pages: 291+xxviii. Price: f39.50. ISBN 1-85293-039-X. The field of climatology has experienced significant changes because of the increasing importance of satellites in monitoring the state of the Earth’s environment. Disadvantaged by the paucity of observation over much of the world’s oceans and by an uneven distribution of data points over the land surface, the large volume of information that is now available from a number of satellite-borne sensors has created a new perspective for climate science. I n addition to their role in numerical weather prediction, these satellite data provide a basis for the monitoring of phenomena such as E N S 0 and the behaviour of the Antarctic ozone ‘hole’.This book takes a fresh look at satellite climatology and examines many of the aspects of the climate system that can be studied from satellites. The most significant component of the book is a treatment of clouds, their properties and the global distribution and character of cloud systems. This is the author’s expertise, and the book benefits from this. The emphasis on clouds and cloud systems is not unduly great, since an understanding of the role of clouds and their effect on various radiation fields is essential if valuable use is to be made from any remotely sensed data set. Clouds play a dominant role in the transfer of radiation through the atmosphere, and significantly affect the quality of remote sensing data for a wide variety of parameters. Much of the material on clouds and cloud systems draws on the authors own research expertise and the approach adopted in each chapter is ideal for use in an undergraduate course and for beginning postgraduates. A summary of the problem and a wide ranging discussion of the techniques available, particularly satellite instruments and analysis techniques, make excellent reading for someone new to the area, or as a basis for further research by a graduate student. The text is well referenced (over 30 pages of references for the whole book) and a glossary helps acquaint new readers to some of the specialist terms used in the book. An extensive list of acronyms at the beginning of the book is traditional, but the first chapter follows this with an extensive thematic summary of satellite systems for meteorology and climatology. Such a summary is a valuable contrast to the usual method of summarizing satellite contributions to science by satellite name, and since many of the sensors have flown on multiple platforms, or many of the experiments have contributions from multiple platforms, this makes an overall picture difficult to obtain. The detail that is present in the book is a credit to the author and the book must be a valuable addition to the resources of anyone with graduate or undergraduate teaching in this area. KENDAL MCGUFFIE, University o Technology Sydney f CLIMATE, DATA AND RESOURCES: A REFERENCE AND GUIDE, Edward Linacre, Routledge (London), 1992. No. of pages: 366+xviii. Price: f50.00(hb.), ISBN 0-41505702-7, f16.99 (pb.) ISBN 0-415-05703-5. This is a very broadly based book which deals with a wide variety of topics relating to the acquisition and analysis of climate data and their use for descriptive and interpretive purposes. The book ‘arose out of a senior undergraduate course on Applied Climatology’, and is aimed, ambitiously, at ‘students, meteorologists, engineers, planners, farmers ...and also ... teachers who d o not have access to a comprehensive, up-to-date library’. It is a ‘systematic digest of over 2000 books and papers as well as new material’, ‘attention is focused on the sort of observations which are made a t a single climate station’, and ‘anyone ... running a weather station should find the book useful’.

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