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Description:
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Satellite observations are providing amazing new global pictures of the Earth-atmosphere system that are becoming increasingly visible in scientific research and in the popular press. With 50 color-coded satellite images and carefully chosen illustrative examples, "Earth form above" provides an easy introduction to understanding and interpreting these extraordinary new data sets. While the book emphasizes how satellite data provide information about the Earth-atmosphere system along with some of the limitations of the data, discussions within chapters also include such environmentally important topics as the Antarctic ozone hole, El Nino, deforestation, the missing carbon dilemma, and the effects of sea ice, snow cover, and volcanoes on atmospheric temperatures.
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