Contents
PART A: SOME BACKGROUND ON OBSERVATIONS, DATA
ASSIMILATION AND MODELING
1 Energy and Water Cycles in the Climate System: What can we measure
from space?
E. Raschke
3
2 Observational Requirements for Modeling of Global and Regional Climate Change
A.D. Del Genio
31
3 Surface Fluxes of Momentum, Heat, and Water Vapor
J.D. Albertson, G. Kiely and M.B. Parlange
59
4 Introduction to Numerical Weather Prediction Data Assimilation
P. Courtier
5 Priciples of Active and Passive Remote Measurements of Water in the
Atmosphere and at Ground
83
Y. Fouquart and M. Vesperini
97
6 Extratropical Cyclones: Their Mesoscale Structure, Precipitation and
Role in the Transport of Water
Ronald E. Stewart
129
PART B: REMOTE SENSING OF CLOUDS, RADIATION AND
PRECIPITATION
7 Clouds and the Radiative Heating of the Earth Surface-Atmosphere
System
R. Stuhlmann
8 Remote Sensing of Atmospheric Water Vapor
W.B. Rossow
9 Properties of Clouds and Cloud Systems
W.B. Rossow
10 Lidar Measurements: Atmospheric Constituents, Clouds, and Ground
Reflectance
151
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C. Weitkamp
217