
Extreme Hydroclimatic Events and Multivariate Hazards in a Changing Environment
A Remote Sensing Approach
Description
Key Features
- Emphasizes recent and future satellite missions to study, monitor and forecast hydroclimatic hazards
- Provides a complete overview and differentiation of remotely sensed products that are useful for monitoring extreme hydroclimatic and related events
- Covers real-life examples and applications of integrating remote sensing products to study complex multi-hydroclimatic hazards
Readership
Meteorologists, climatologists, hydrologists, agronomists, geologists, geographers, water resource scientists and managers, scientists and environmental managers focusing on climate change, researchers whose focus is on sustainability, land use, disaster management, risk-assessment, and risk reduction
Table of Contents
Part I: Water cycle variables for monitoring hydroclimatic hazards: state-of-the-art and future directions
1. Precipitation
2. Terrestrial Water Storage
3. Soil Moisture
4. Water Surface Elevation
5. Evaporation
6. VegetationPart II: Remote sensing and modeling techniques for monitoring and predicting hydroclimatic hazards: Perspectives and Applications
7. Studying extreme precipitation events in mountainous regions with satellite-based precipitation products
8. Spatiotemporal patterns of precipitation concentration, aggressiveness, and seasonality in Bangladesh
9. Characterizing meteorological droughts in data scarce regions using remotely sensed precipitation
10. Recent advances in remote sensing of precipitation and soil moisture for riverine flood prediction
11. Using altimetry and optical sensors for monitoring and forecasting river discharge
12. Inundation mapping using remote sensing techniques
13. Storm Surge and Sea Level Rise: Threat to the Coastal Areas of Bangladesh
14. Hazard assessment and forecasting of landslides and debris flows: A case study in Northern Italy
15. Remote sensing-based techniques for avalanche risk assessment and forecasting
Product details
- No. of pages: 438
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Elsevier 2019
- Published: June 6, 2019
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128148990
- eBook ISBN: 9780128149003
About the Editors
Viviana Maggioni
Affiliations and Expertise
Christian Massari
Affiliations and Expertise
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