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Climate Change and Weather Related Impacts

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Abstract

In order to address the contributions of GNSS to monitor climate change caused by increase in temperature, a distinction between weather and climate on one hand, and climate variability and climate change on the other hand is essential.

Real-time GNSS measurements have the potential to contribute to climate modeling and weather forecasting through integrative measurement of atmospheric water vapor in GNSS signal delays and measurements of soil moisture flux.

–W.C. Hammond et al. [1]

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Notes

  1. 1.

    European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts.

  2. 2.

    See e.g., http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/noaa-n/main/index.html.

  3. 3.

    Thematic mapper.

  4. 4.

    http://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/about/L7_td.html.

  5. 5.

    High-Resolution Visible and Infrared (imaging instrument). See http://www.cnes.fr/web/CNES-en/7114-home-cnes.php.

  6. 6.

    Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer.

  7. 7.

    High Resolution Visible.

  8. 8.

    Synthetic Aperture Radar.

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Awange, J. (2018). Climate Change and Weather Related Impacts. In: GNSS Environmental Sensing. Environmental Science and Engineering(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-58418-8_11

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