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Weather, Climate and Global Warming

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Environmental Geoinformatics

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In order to fully appreciate the contribution of geoinformatics in monitoring 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. Burroughs (2007) points out that weather is what is happening to the atmosphere at any given time (i.e., what one gets), whereas climate is what would be expected to occur at any given time of the year based on statistics built up over many years (i.e., what one expects).

“All across the world, in every kind of environment and region known to man, increasingly dangerous weather patterns and devastating storms are abruptly putting an end to the long-running debate over whether or not climate change is real. Not only is it real, it’s here, and its effects are giving rise to a frighteningly new global phenomenon: the man-made natural disaster.”

Barrack Obama, April 3, 2006

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Notes

  1. 1.

    http://www.clarklabs.org/applications/REDD.cfm

  2. 2.

    European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts.

  3. 3.

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

  4. 4.

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-20653018

  5. 5.

    Thematic mapper.

  6. 6.

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

  7. 7.

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

  8. 8.

    Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer.

  9. 9.

    Laser Infrared Detection And Ranging.

  10. 10.

    High Resolution Visible.

  11. 11.

    Synthetic Aperture Radar.

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Awange, J.L., Kyalo Kiema, J.B. (2013). Weather, Climate and Global Warming. In: Environmental Geoinformatics. Environmental Science and Engineering(). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-34085-7_21

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