Perrin / Ben Sari-Zizi / Demaison Remote Sensing of the Atmosphere for Environmental Security

2006
ISBN: 978-1-4020-5090-9
Verlag: Springer Netherlands
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 366 Seiten

Reihe: Nato Security through Science Series C:

Recent ecological disasters make human beings aware ofchanges in the Earth?s climate. At the present time anthropogenic activities lead to the emission of greenhouse gases, pollutanis, aerosols and ozone depleting substances and the scientific community in general feels responsible for understanding how changes in atmospheric chemistry can affect the Earth?s climate. A NATO Advanced Research Workshop (ARW) was organized at Rabat (Morocco) on the 1719th ofNovember 2005 on the "Remote sensing ofthe Atmosphere for Environmental Security>>. The first part ofthe corresponding proceedings describes the current capabilities ofvarious satellite experiments which are performing measurements of the Earth?s atmosphere, as for example some ofthe results obtained recently by three experiments onboard the ENVISAT Environment Satellite (ENVISAT), namely, the Global Ozone Monitoring Experiment (GOME), the SCanning Imaging Absorption for Atmospheric CHartographY (SCIAMACHY) and the Michelson Interferometer for Passive Atmospheric Sounding (MIPAS). For the analysis of spectra recorded by these instruments it is necessary to make good use of efficient radiative transfer codes. These computer codes need as input, a dataset ofhigh quality spectroscopic parameters which can be generated only through a careful analysis ofhigh quality laboratory measurements. In addition some ofthe future satellite missions which are under preparation at the European Space Agency (ESA) are briefly described.

The characterisation of pollution in urban areas and the growing lack of water in many countries of the Mediterranean area are of universal concern. The extreme variability of properties of the aerosols in arid and semi arid areas is presented in the context of an experiment performed at Cairo (in Egypt). Finally, the understanding of climate chemistry couplings requires that ground based and satellite information to be confronted with the results of chemical transport and atmospheric models collected and discussed in the frame of international agencies.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Perrin, Agnès

Ben Sari-Zizi, Najate

Demaison, Jean

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Physik Angewandte Physik Umweltphysik
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Geodäsie, Kartographie, GIS, Fernerkundung
• Geowissenschaften Geologie Meteorologie, Klimatologie
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Angewandte Ökologie
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltüberwachung, Umweltanalytik, Umweltinformatik
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Abfallbeseitigung, Abfallentsorgung
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltverschmutzung, Umweltkriminalität, Umweltrecht
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Wasserversorgung
• Rechtswissenschaften Öffentliches Recht Umweltrecht Abfall- und Bodenschutzrecht
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Klimawandel, Globale Erwärmung
• Technische Wissenschaften Umwelttechnik | Umwelttechnologie Abfallwirtschaft, Abfallentsorgung
• Geowissenschaften Geologie Geodäsie, Kartographie, Fernerkundung

Über Autor(innen)

Agnès Perrin, Laboratoire Interuniversitaire des Systèmes Atmosphériques, Créteil Cedex, France / Najate Ben Sari-Zizi, Laboratoire de Spectronomie, Département de Physique, Faculté des Sciences de Rabat, Université Mohammed V-Agdal, Rabat,Morocco / Jean Demaison, Laboratoire de Physique des Lasers, Atomes et Molécules, UMR CNRS, Université des Sciences et Technologies de Lille, Villeneuve d'Ascq, France