The cryosphere, that region of the world where water is temporarily or permanently frozen, plays a crucial role on our planet. Recent developments in remote sensing techniques, and the acquisition of new data sets, have resulted in significant advances in our understanding of all components of the cryosphere and its processes. This book, based on contributions from 40 leading experts, offers a comprehensive and authoritative overview of the methods, techniques and recent advances in applications of remote sensing of the cryosphere. Examples of the topics covered include: snow extent, depth, grain-size and impurities surface and subsurface melting glaciers accumulation over the Greenland and Antarctica ice sheets ice thickness and velocities gravimetric measurements from space sea, lake and river ice frozen ground and permafrost fieldwork activities recent and future cryosphere-oriented missions and experiments All figures are in color and provide an excellent visual accompaniment to the technical and scientific aspect of the book. Readership: Senior undergraduates, Masters and PhD Students, PostDocs and Researchers in cryosphere science and remote sensing. Remote Sensing of the Cryosphere is the significant first volume in the new Cryosphere Science Series. This new series comprises volumes that are at the cutting edge of new research, or provide focussed interdisciplinary reviews of key aspects of the science.

The cryosphere, that region of the world where water istemporarily or permanently frozen, plays a crucial role on ourplanet. Recent developments in remote sensing techniques, and theacquisition of new data sets, have resulted in significant advancesin our understanding of all components of the cryosphere and itsprocesses.This book, based on contributions from 40 leading expertsoffers a comprehensive and authoritative overview of the methodstechniques and recent advances in applications of remote sensing ofthe cryosphere. Examples of the topics covered include:* snow extent, depth, grain-size and impurities* surface and subsurface melting* glaciers* accumulation over the Greenland and Antarctica icesheets* ice thickness and velocities* gravimetric measurements from space* sea, lake and river ice* frozen ground and permafrost* fieldwork activities* recent and future cryosphere-oriented missions andexperimentsAll figures are in color and provide an excellent visualaccompaniment to the technical and scientific aspect of thebook.Readership: Senior undergraduates, Masters and PhDStudents, PostDocs and Researchers in cryosphere science and remotesensing.Remote Sensing of the Cryosphere is the significant firstvolume in the new Cryosphere Science Series. This newseries comprises volumes that are at the cutting edge of newresearch, or provide focussed interdisciplinary reviews of keyaspects of the science.

List of contributors xvCryosphere Science: Series Preface xixPreface xxiAcknowledgments xxiiiAbout the companion website xxiv1 Remote sensing and the cryosphere 1Marco Tedesco2 Electromagnetic properties of components of the cryosphere17Marco Tedesco3 Remote sensing of snow extent 31Dorothy K. Hall, Allan Frei, and Stephen J. Déry4 Remote sensing of snow albedo, grain size, and pollution fromspace 48Alexander A. Khokanovsky5 Remote sensing of snow depth and snow water equivalent73Marco Tedesco, Chris Derksen, Jeffrey S. Deems, and James L.Foster6 Remote sensing of melting snow and ice 99Marco Tedesco,Thomas Mote, Konrad Steffen, Dorothy K. Hall, andWaleed Abdalati7 Remote sensing of glaciers 123Bruce H. Raup, Liss M. Andreassen, Tobias Bolch, and SuzanneBevan8 Remote sensing of accumulation over the Greenland andAntarctic ice sheets 157Lora Koenig, Richard Forster, Ludovic Brucker, and JulieMiller9 Remote sensing of ice thickness and surface velocity 187Prasad Gogineni and Jie-Bang Yan10 Gravimetry measurements from space 231Scott B. Luthcke, D.D. Rowlands, T.J. Sabaka, B.D. Loomis, M.Horwath, and A.A. Arendt11 Remote sensing of sea ice 248Walter N. Meier and Thorsten Markus12 Remote sensing of lake and river ice 273Claude R. Duguay, Monique Bernier, Yves Gauthier, and AlexeiKouraev13 Remote sensing of permafrost and frozen ground 307Sebastian Westermann, Claude R. Duguay, Guido Grosse, andAndreas Kääb14 Field measurements for remote sensing of the cryosphere345Hans-Peter Marshall, Robert L. Hawley, and Marco Tedesco15 Remote sensing missions and the cryosphere 382Marco Tedesco, Tommaso Parrinello, CharlesWebb, and ThorstenMarkusIndex 393