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Global Climate Monitoring with Microwave Measurements

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The rising cost of global climate change is partly due to natural disasters that will lead to potential negative impacts for many areas. There are problems encountered by many experts whose forecasts vary considerably. Maarten (2006) provides an overview of current knowledge about climate change and its effects on climate variability and extreme weather conditions that could lead to natural disasters, with particular attention to the applicability of information on disaster risk reduction. Extreme events may accompany a gradual rise in average global temperatures due to rising CO2 concentrations. First, the variability of the global climate appears in extreme weather. It is sufficient here to cite such extreme events of November 2018 as multiple wildfires in northern and southern California with tragic consequences. The phenomenon of extreme weather has occurred in the summer of May and June 2018 in almost all European countries, when nature provided events from flood droughts. Table 9.1 lists some of them.

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  1. National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA), Athens, Greece

    Costas A. Varotsos

  2. Institute of Radio-Engineering and Electronics, Fryazino, Russia

    Vladimir F. Krapivin

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Varotsos, C.A., Krapivin, V.F. (2020). Global Climate Monitoring with Microwave Measurements. In: Microwave Remote Sensing Tools in Environmental Science . Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-45767-9_9

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