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Introduction to Space Technology Challenges: Potential and Future Prospects
This book affords an outline of the future overview of the current position and short-term insights into the space technology and the issues in the fast-mounting geospatial technology. A prosperous marker in t...
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Open AccessEmergence of ozone recovery evidenced by reduction in the occurrence of Antarctic ozone loss saturation
Industrial emissions of ozone depleting substances (ODSs) during the second half of the twentieth century have led to one of the most visible human impacts on the Earth: the Antarctic ozone hole. The ozone los...
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Extratropical anticyclonic Rossby wave breaking and Indian summer monsoon failure
Interactions between midlatitude disturbances and the monsoonal circulation are significant for the Indian summer monsoon (ISM) rainfall. This paper presents examples of monsoon–midlatitude linkage through an...
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Prediction of sea ice edge in the Antarctic using GVF Snake model
Antarctic sea ice cover plays an important role in sha** the earth’s climate, primarily by insulating the ocean from the atmosphere and increasing the surface albedo. The convective processes accompanied wit...
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Tsunami Early Warning System: An Indian Ocean Perspective
Tsunamis are considered the most devastating natural hazard on coastal environments ever known. Densely populated cities on coastal belts are the engines of economic growth and the centers of innovation for gl...
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Remote Sensing Applications to Coastal Oceanography
Remote sensing of coastal oceanography refers to analysis of various coastal processes using space-borne and air-borne sensors. Remote sensing provides many advantages over the conventional techniques such as ...
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Changes in the source and transport mechanism of terrigenous input to the Indian sector of Southern Ocean during the late Quaternary and its palaeoceanographic implications
Changes in the terrigenous sediment source and transport mechanisms during the late Quaternary have been investigated using four sediment cores within the Indian sector of Southern Ocean, using the magnetic su...
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Early prediction of onset of south west monsoon from ERS-1 scatterometer winds
Detailed analysis of the surface winds over the Indian Ocean derived from ERS-1 scatterometer data during the years 1993 and 1994 has been used to understand and unambiguously identify the onset phase of south...
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Surface-level moisture transport over the Indian Ocean during southwest monsoon months using NOAA/HIRS data
Surface-level moisture transport over the Indian Ocean has been computed using NOAA/HIRS data for the years 1980, 1981 and 1984. The global relation between monthly mean surface-level humidity and precipitable...
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The variational technique of data assimilation using adjoint equations in a shallow water model
The variational technique of data assimilation using adjoint equations has been illustrated using a nonlinear oceanographic shallow water model. The technique consists of minimizing a cost function representin...
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A curiosity regarding the relation between surface level humidity and precipitable water
We have examined the global relation betwen the mean monthly surface level humidity and the precipitable water (Q-W relation) developed by Liu (1986) for its applicability to instantaneous data sets as proposed b...
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Linear retrieval and global measurement of precipitable water from the SEASAT SMMR data
The Seasat Scanning Multichannel Microwave Radiometer (SMMR) measurements in the 18.0, 21.0 and 37.0 GHz channels, both horizontal and vertical polarizations, are primarily used for precipitable water, cloud l...
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Numerical experiment with modelled return echo of a satellite altimeter from a rough ocean surface and a simple iterative algorithm for the estimation of significant wave height
We have simulated the return echo of a satellite altimeter from a rough ocean surface using an analytical formula and have studied its sensitivity with respect to various oceanic and altimeter parameters. Our ...
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Wind-wave relationship from SEASAT radar altimeter data
We present a nonlinear relationship between ocean surface wind at 10 m height (U 10 ) and significant wave height of wind-generated gravity waves, (H 1/3)gw, over the open ocean...
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The effect of whitecaps and foam on wind speed extraction with a pulse limited radar altimeter
The effect of whitecaps and foam on wind speed extraction with a pulse limited radar altimeter has been studied using a specular point model. By modelling foam and water as a two-layer media, we have investiga...
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Advances in microwave remote sensing of the ocean and atmosphere
This article reviews the current state-of-the-art and future prospects of the microwave techniques for remote sensing of the earth’s atmosphere and ocean. Geophysical parameters and their relationship with mea...
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Atmospheric temperature profile for a tropical region from TIROS-N microwave sounding unit
Atmospheric temperature profiles have been derived using 53·74 GHz, 54·96 GHz and 57·95 GHz channels data from the Microwave Sounding Unit onboard TIROS-N. For this purpose regression coefficients have been de...
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A simulation technique for the determination of atmospheric water content with Bhaskara satellite microwave radiometer (SAMIR)
A simulation technique has been developed to estimate the integrated atmospheric water content over oceans using the 19·35 and 22·235 GHz brightness temperature data from satellite microwave radiometer (SAMIR)...
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Capability ofBhaskara SAMIR to distinguish atmospheric water vapour and liquid water contents
An environmental model to compute microwave brightness temperatures for downward looking radiometers on board satellite is described. The effects of water vapour, oxygen and clouds on the brightness temperatur...